A mushroom man rides a bizarre animal in this surrealist painting by Naoto Hattori

Surrealist Human Nature Hybrids by Naoto Hattori

Naoto Hattori creates bizarre surrealist paintings with an otherworldly feel. Most of his paintings seem to be set in a bygone colonial era, with backgrounds of carefully created and tended gardens; the kind of landscape you’d expect to see on the grounds of an estate house. Hattori brings in both human and animal elements to [...]

Beautiful human eyes peek out of rose flowers in this abstract painting by Shann Larsson

Shann Larsson’s Nomadic Mixed Media Art

Shann Larsson was born in 1987 and raised in Germany, Sweden, Indonesia and Hong Kong. The childhood nomad currently lives and works in Hong Kong, creating mixed media art works with photo manipulation and paint to create art works that combine the real and imagined worlds. Larsson says her paintings are inspired by emotions and [...]

French artists “Bonsoir Paris” Create Wood that Melts

French artists “Bonsoir Paris” Create Wood that Melts

Bonsoir Paris is an art duo who experiment with a variety of art mediums. Turning their hands and creative talents to wood sculptures, the artistic pair created Duramen, a series of wood sculptures that depicts melting picture frames. Each piece is a tactile surrealistic delight. In reality, wood doesn’t melt, it simply burns and turns to [...]

This fantastic and unusual graffiti painting by Inti challenges religion and technology

Graffiti Artist INTI is changing the World of Street Art

INTI is a graffiti artist from Santiago, Chile. His enormous street art paintings are giving the world of graffiti art a new appeal; turning an entire side of a building into a large scale art work brings fine art out of the galleries and into the streets. Inti’s graffiti paintings don’t resemble the messy scrawls [...]

A paisley inspired tattoo design by Barbara Swingaling of brightly colored flowers

Barbara Swingaling’s Intriguing Paisley Tattoos

Barbara Swingaling is an artist living in the Netherlands. Working from the body art shop Classic Ink and Mods in Amsterdam, Swingaling creates tattoos with an intriguing twist; although the tattoo is permanent, the designs are based on those traditionally used in henna tattoos, a non-permanent form of body art. Many of Swingaling’s paisley tattoo [...]

A colorful and trippy makeover painting of Gollum by Nicky Barkla

Nicky Barkla gives Celebrities a Crazy Color Makeover

Nicky Barkla is an artist from Melbourne, Australia, who enjoys giving famous faces a new look. Barkla’s favorite technique is adding an oily, melting effect to a photograph of a celebrity to create a mind-blowingly colorful and psychedelic portrait. Barkla has given color makeovers to celebrities like Johnny Depp, Albert Einstein, Gollum and Heath Ledger’s [...]

The Sensuality and Mystery of Sarah Joncas’ Painted Women

The Sensuality and Mystery of Sarah Joncas’ Painted Women

Sarah Joncas is a Canadian artist who focuses primarily on women as a subject for her art. Sarah’s paintings often have a pensive feeling to them, created through the mysterious expression on many of the girls’ faces. There is also a sense of the macabre to Joncas’ art; a connection with the darker aspects of [...]

Just One in a Thousand – Beautiful Speed Painting by Agnes Cecile

Just One in a Thousand – Beautiful Speed Painting by Agnes Cecile

Agnes Cecile is an artist who has been featured on Mayhem & Muse before in Watercolor Speed Painting Video by Agnes Cecile and Agnes Cecile’s World of Watercolor. This young Italian artist is stunning the  art world with her vibrant watercolor portraits and her videos which show the creation process of the art are becoming very [...]

Chinese graffiti artist and painter Hua Tunan creates a laughing parrot out of splatters

Hua Tunan Marries Splatter Painting and Street Art

Hua Tunan (born Chen Yingjie) is a Chinese painter and graffiti artist with an eye-catching style. Tunan’s art works appear to be a crossroads between art genres, a meeting point in which classical Chinese painting techniques combine with Jackson Pollock’s abstract splatter style, both of which are brought to the public eye via the canvas [...]