Lizan Freijsen makes art with things completely unusual

Lizan Freijsen is a Dutch artist that reimagines images of the things that we, the common people, we’re finding them being repulsive: mold growth, funghi, leakages, and water stains on walls. She basically works with those things and transforms them into colored stuff like carpets, hangers, and blankets. Lizan Freijsen said that the works that she creates are installed…

Miles Johnston and his graphite muses

Miles Johnston is an illustrator from London that creates dreamy, surreal portraits of girls whose faces are distorted or removed. Miles Johnston works with a graphite pencil, illustrating sketches in a hyper-smooth style. It’s obvious that he has a talent for technique and texture. His ongoing series entitled “Transformations” is divided into four parts: “Deform”, “Divide”, “Attract” and…

Pia-Mélissa Laroche and her surreal world

Pia-Mélissa Laroche is a French artist that lives in Paris. She illustrates the absurd world of abstraction, developing the surreal worlds.   Pia-Mélissa Laroche creates in her works worlds full of mysteries, illustrating tunnels and the dark corners of the mind. She explains: “Like the crypts of Christian Churches or Nabatean’s tombs, those architectural structures are directly…

Henrique de Franca and his art of lethargy

Henrique de Franca is based in São Paulo, Brazil. “Torpor” is the title of his series of pencil drawings.  Henrique de Franca inspires a visual sense of lethargy and idleness into the process of his work. The negative space creates small scale drawings on 40x60cm sheets of paper. His sparse sketches of figures, their shadows, water, and small…

Aiste Stancikaite and the art of precision

Aiste Stancikaite is a Lithuanian artist based in Berlin. She creates digital abstract art, developing fine-lined images with a focus on detail and texture. Aiste Stancikaite prefers a combination of non-traditional and traditional illustrative techniques for her work.  “The combination of these methods match in terms of precision and detail, yet oppose each other in visual execution. I’m very interested…

Myoung Ho Lee recompose graphic his landscapes

Myoung Ho Lee is a South Korean artist that captured single trees against rectangular white backdrops, resulting in this way a series of graphic landscapes.  Myoung Ho Lee used with a 4×5 camera, depicting a wide range of tree species during different seasons and times of the day. By creating a partial, temporary outdoor studio for each tree, Lee’s ‘portraits’…