Ray Caesar was born in London, England in 1958. He describes his childhood art as “atypical and aberrant” as it was unlike the bright pop art of the 60s and 70s. Drawing inspiration from Classical, Baroque and Romantic era paintings, Caesar creates fantasy scenes that include innocent young girls, sensual young women or ageless divas. [...]
Japanese artist Yosuke Ueno’s painting are an interesting blend of fantasy, surrealistic styling and cartoon elements. Although his characters are all his own original designs, their cartoon styling has been around for nearly a century. His pop surrealism paintings have an innocent appeal about them, even when darker symbolism appears in the art work in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cyriak is a freelance animator from Brighton in the UK. Cyriak’s animations delve into the realm of the bizarre, combining surrealism and animation to create trippy and mind-boggling animated videos. “Cows & Cows & Cows”, the video featured here, is an animation created in Adobe After Effects. Cyriak used images of cows, morphing and distorting [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Robert Treece’s paintings are a treat for anyone who enjoys spending hours staring at an art work. Because of the abstract, surrealist nature of his style, each painting can reveal thousands of different ideas hidden within the colors and forms of the painting. Depending on the mood of the viewer and the angle from which [...]
Camilla d’Errico’s art is a combination of comic book characters and fantasy elements. The majority of her subjects are female manga characters who pose with an assortment of birds, fish, animals and butterflies. Each of the animals has a different symbolic meaning in art. Birds are often used as a symbol of freedom, travel and [...]
Daniel Merriam was born on February 1, 1963 in a small town in Maine, USA. He was one of seven artistic children and so was surrounded by creative pursuits as a child. He began exploring his artistic skills by drawing cartoons for his high school paper and went on to become a professional architectural designer. [...]