A POST-HUMANISM Drawing on Japanese drawing traditions mixed with South African Culture, the work of Jamy van Zyl connects the tensions and troubles felt in these communities, but smashes them head on with all their surrounding glory and wonderment. “I would describe my work as self-expressive. My first major theme that I am still creating […]
A MOODY SURREALISTIC UNIVERSE Wrapped in a moody surrealistic parallel universe, Max Löffler’s – or Loeffler – illustrations can be seen as a sullen and bitter smirk towards the obscurity, monotony and ferocity of everyday life. His work does not give plausible answers, but tries to ask significant questions such as; are you hurt, what’s […]
METAPHORICAL COMPOSITIONS The paintings of Toni Kondev are a contemporary combination of romanticism, symbolism, with a rather challenging realism. The lines are exquisite, the compositions are quite metaphorical with a special conceptual orientation. There is a fiction that coexists with a bruised reality and the symbiosis awakens complex feelings in the viewer. But above all, […]
THE BEAUTY IN VULNERABILTY Lira is Slovenian artist who works primarely with watercolours, but also loves to draw or mix both in her signature use of combining watercolours and graphite. Using these mediums, her work usually combines realistic portraiture with fantasy or surreal narrative, trying to communicate the complexity of emotions and worlds we have […]
HYPNOTIC CARTOONS Nicolas Fong is a Belgian illustrator and animator. He studied at La Cambre arts visuels and he worked for the animation studio Sinematik, collaborating in the making of music videos and animated series. Nicolas creates also GIFs: they are a mix of animation and cartooning, between humor and macabre. Skulls, snakes and tongues […]
SECRET AND MELANCHOLIC STORIES Self taught artist and habitual doodler, Craww lives and works in Sheffield, UK drawing inspiration from daydreams, music, comics, nature, gin and an overactive imagination. His work is a stream of consciousness ramble through the woods, uncovering secret stories and ambiguous connections, it’s direction influenced as much by accident and a […]
