Vicissitudes
Jason de Caires Taylor is that creator of the world’s first underwater sculpture park. His work highlights the relationship between contemporary art and the natural world, with the aim to increase hope, awareness and optimism related to nature’s state.
Jason (1974-) grew up in Canterbury, eastern England, with much of his early life spent in Asia, […]
Cancion de Amor
Artists are story tellers. They write words and sentences with brush strokes and ink, and Virgo Paraiso, (who really is a Virgo!) 33, tells stories of the land in which he grew up in. He was born near Sierra Madre, home of the Tarahumara people of Chihuahua, Mexico, where he was surrounded […]
Syrup
Ah, this is just my kind of art - colourful, crazy and a little bit twisted. Yoko dHolbachie is a Japanese artist who has a knack for displaying dreams through the medium of paint and computer graphics. She reveals psychedelic shapes and hues and mixes them with sweet, playful looking subject matter (although they’re just […]
Clear Heart, Grey Flowers
My friend had her Facebook profile picture as this incredibly odd image of four girls having a tea party (see Allegory of the Four Elements below), but I had no idea who the artist was. Then I happened to stumble across Mark Ryden’s website the other day and noticed it was one […]
Library
I came across this slightly sinister photo a long time ago, and have kept it in my ‘amazing art’ file without ever knowing who the artist is or what the photo is about. The cool thing is, I just stumbled across some information about the artist, Lori Nix, and have learnt that these pictures are […]
There’s something so beautiful about the impermanence of sand art. It takes just a few seconds to create this intricate masterpiece and then it’s destroyed in a matter of seconds too.
The Israeli sand animation artist, Ilana Yahav, has boosted the awareness of sand art in her many YouTube videos, with all of them receiving hundreds […]
I have discovered another artistic genius - Mark Jenkins. When I first saw Jenkins’ work I was reminded of Banksy; they both produce street installations around the globe which force you to contemplate social issues, and yet they’re somewhat humourous in a dark sort of way. Coincidentally, as I was delving into my research, I […]
