Inspired by scientific and esoteric concepts, vintage photographs, and cartography, the artist uses these materials and turns them into a “new visual language in which colors, textures, and geometry are used to reflect the eternal dance between humans and the natural world.”

“My work is a response to the accelerating environmental degradation we are facing and have imposed upon nature and all wildlife. It seeks to connect us to the core of our humanity….” he shared on his personal website.

The “Artivist” currently has more than 16,000 Instagram followers, and his posts receive thousands of views. We really enjoyed browsing through his page and we believe that you will enjoy it, too. Follow him for future updates, or check out his website for more. Don’t forget to turn on your speakers.

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Her magazine paintings aim to liberate and transform the figures she collects beyond recognition to create ethereal yet provocative works that question notions of identity and how women are perceived and perceive themselves. “My aim is to test the limits of the paper and paint,” she explained in a piece she wrote for Create Magazine. “I am looking for reactions between the paint and the paper and how one layer of paint is impacted by the preceding layers.”

According to Brewster, there is often buckling, cracking, and distortions in colors. Such unpredictability is thrilling to her. “I am always testing the materials, colors, and textures to act beyond what I expect and can control,” she writes. “I encourage the paint to do things it’s not supposed to do to create happy accidents.”

Ironically enough, her cut-up paintings and collages have been published in many glossy magazines themselves, including Vogue, World of Interiors, and Marie-Claire Maison. Her work has also been exhibited widely – from Manchester Art Gallery to Sydney, Australia.

But you can also follow her online:

The post Painting, Stippling, and Layering: Claire Brewster’s Unique Artwork appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Describing himself as “a student of metaphysics”, Landström is interested in glyphs and symbols from ancient cultures and how these marks have traveled through civilizations, geographies and time. This also fits his chosen materials, with his artistic process not unlike that of alchemy—transforming emotions and ideas into artifacts through volcanic rock.

“I think every person is a kind of transceiver to varying degrees, depending on where they’re from and how they live,” writes Landström on his website, “which is reflected in the fact—among other ways—that certain images or symbols are universal and occur in vastly different civilizations all over the world and throughout history.”

His paintings provide an assembled constellation of recurring imagery, including animals, letters/word fragments, diagrams, symbols, and glyphs. These elements in combination — with letters sometimes arranged to suggest headlines or titles, and symbols presented as formulas, swirling around realistically rendered creatures — form their own pictorial universe.

He describes is as a sort of mash-up of symbols with other languages, formulas, and spirit animals that emerges from this babbling brook of consciousness in his head and takes up their life on the canvas. Take a look at some of his undeciphered work in the gallery below:

The post Bob Landström Paints With Crushed Volcanic Rocks appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Based out of San José, California, his work has long outgrown its humble beginnings and is now shown in public art spaces, museums, companies, and galleries, as well as published in editorial publications.

“I feel lucky to have studied as an artist in the streets and later in a college,” he shared in an interview with Acclaim Magazine. “In doing so, I always felt like I had to keep my artistry of the streets and love of letters separate from what I was learning in school. I used to separate what I could create, so, for example, I would tell myself ‘this is for graffiti’, and ‘that is for the galleries’, today I don’t. Now I am combining my love of everything together, which you will begin to see unfold in the years to come.”

His work tends to center around two types of portraiture which he refers to as, “Topographical Portraiture” and “Type Faces.” While the Topographical Portraits are made by stylizing a portrait with topographical lines and shapes, in a similar manner to those found through images on geographic maps; his Type Faces incorporate typography and portraiture.

“I want to expand further on the concept of these type-based portraits,” he says. We sure hope his dream comes true!

The post From the Street to the Museum: These Portraits Are Based on Graffiti appeared first on PlayJunkie.

But nowadays, her art is a far cry from charcoal nudes. Loud, bold, and colorful, she creates powerful visuals using everything from markers to acrylics, pencils, and ink, and sometimes even her bare hands making the whole process a very personal one. As such, her art breaks the boundaries of how the body and facial features are illustrated through the fashion industry. In other words: she likes mixing things up!

But though her work is a vibrant mish-mash of sorts, she herself is much more subdued. “My work is usually very loud, bold, and somehow different from my very chill real-life personality,” she told Adobe’s online magazine. “It probably has to do with the fact that I get bored easily and love to experiment, and I find art to be the perfect way of expressing myself.”

Her energetic illustrations attracted the eye of various global brands and publications. “I’m constantly in a different headspace and love to think three steps ahead, and usually the next project is the most exciting one,” she says. “When working with clients, I really like a good brief, but I also love to come up with new stuff and usually do a bunch of explorations using the tools and colors that I feel work best or will help that specific brand communicate better.”

Take a look at some of her energetic work in the gallery below:

The post Andreea Robescu Makes Some Noise appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“A damaged butterfly, a broken twig, a bumblebee, some strangely grown weeds: I find all these unique discoveries in my path and then take them home to my studio,” she writes on her website. “Here, I take my time to explore the objects and try to work out how I can show each one to its best advantage.”

She collects her material from a variety of sources: the flowers she grows in her garden, second-hand picture books, and butterflies from the botanical garden in Utrecht. It’s these finds which inspire her work, allowing her to invent her own stories about their former existence. By protecting these pieces under glass, she gives the objects a second life, hoping to inspire people to make up their own stories about them.

“I hope it gives joy and that it inspires,” she said in an interview with Create Magazine. With more than 25k fans on Instagram, it’s clear that people are inspired.

The post Dutch Artist Brings Her Garden Inside appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Her embroidery pieces are removed from their traditional support to adorn plastic and metal. Being trained originally as a sculptor, she juxtaposes different materials and techniques to create an illusion of depth and to reconsider the definition of two and three-dimensional compositions. In the end, the pieces present symbolic allegories and literary allusions – a sort of poetic artwork that demands a closer look.

“Experimenting with thread and making knotted bracelets has always been my favorite thing to do,” she recalled. “It has followed me until today. Whether it is by working with thread or by representing its knots in my embroidered pieces, its lines are always present.”

“My sketchbook contains a lot more words than drawings, however, the initial concept changes tremendously in the making,” she says, explaining about the thought process behind her designs. “The original idea succumbs to the act of materialization, yet prior to the end, the idea is investigated, deepened and deconstructed throughout the evolving phases.”

Follow her Instagram page for more:

The post The Unique Textile Art of Anouk Desloges appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I use materials that are classed as femme, foolish, too much, and disposable; sequins, mirror, beauty supplies,” says DeJesus Moleski in an interview with Art of Choice. “In the lineage of drag and carnival, I re-claim these materials and let them take up space and ritual significance. For the past year I’ve centered light, mirror, and video as my primary materials. My main exploration has been around how I can have flamboyant material objects produce the ephemeral lighting conditions under which that object is seen. Sequin refracts video content into illegible constellations, mirrors bend white light into rainbows.”

Her process always begins with a “commitment to show up,” especially when she doesn’t know what she’s doing. “Material experimentation is a big part of how I begin, and most of it doesn’t amount to anything I would want to show people,” she jokes. “But I’ve learned that I have to do it. A lot of listening to music and trying to make rainbows in the dark.”

Based in New Haven, CT, the multidisciplinary artist has gained quite a following, with more than 8,000 fans on Instagram alone. “I see my drawings as one ongoing project,” she says, “wondering if repetitious symbols and communication through images can slip between the stubbornness of our words and shift our collective perceptions of being and belonging.”

Take a peek into her exciting worlds below.

The post This Artist Makes the Stuff of Dreams appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Inspired by scientific and esoteric concepts, vintage photographs, and cartography, the artist uses these materials and turns them into a “new visual language in which colors, textures, and geometry are used to reflect the eternal dance between humans and the natural world.”

“My work is a response to the accelerating environmental degradation we are facing and have imposed upon nature and all wildlife. It seeks to connect us to the core of our humanity….” he shared on his personal website.

The “Artivist” currently has more than 16,000 Instagram followers, and his posts receive thousands of views. We really enjoyed browsing through his page and we believe that you will enjoy it, too. Follow him for future updates, or check out his website for more. Don’t forget to turn on your speakers.

The post Mixed Media Artist Creates Art Pieces Full Of Powerful Energy appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Her magazine paintings aim to liberate and transform the figures she collects beyond recognition to create ethereal yet provocative works that question notions of identity and how women are perceived and perceive themselves. “My aim is to test the limits of the paper and paint,” she explained in a piece she wrote for Create Magazine. “I am looking for reactions between the paint and the paper and how one layer of paint is impacted by the preceding layers.”

According to Brewster, there is often buckling, cracking, and distortions in colors. Such unpredictability is thrilling to her. “I am always testing the materials, colors, and textures to act beyond what I expect and can control,” she writes. “I encourage the paint to do things it’s not supposed to do to create happy accidents.”

Ironically enough, her cut-up paintings and collages have been published in many glossy magazines themselves, including Vogue, World of Interiors, and Marie-Claire Maison. Her work has also been exhibited widely – from Manchester Art Gallery to Sydney, Australia.

But you can also follow her online:

The post Painting, Stippling, and Layering: Claire Brewster’s Unique Artwork appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Describing himself as “a student of metaphysics”, Landström is interested in glyphs and symbols from ancient cultures and how these marks have traveled through civilizations, geographies and time. This also fits his chosen materials, with his artistic process not unlike that of alchemy—transforming emotions and ideas into artifacts through volcanic rock.

“I think every person is a kind of transceiver to varying degrees, depending on where they’re from and how they live,” writes Landström on his website, “which is reflected in the fact—among other ways—that certain images or symbols are universal and occur in vastly different civilizations all over the world and throughout history.”

His paintings provide an assembled constellation of recurring imagery, including animals, letters/word fragments, diagrams, symbols, and glyphs. These elements in combination — with letters sometimes arranged to suggest headlines or titles, and symbols presented as formulas, swirling around realistically rendered creatures — form their own pictorial universe.

He describes is as a sort of mash-up of symbols with other languages, formulas, and spirit animals that emerges from this babbling brook of consciousness in his head and takes up their life on the canvas. Take a look at some of his undeciphered work in the gallery below:

The post Bob Landström Paints With Crushed Volcanic Rocks appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Based out of San José, California, his work has long outgrown its humble beginnings and is now shown in public art spaces, museums, companies, and galleries, as well as published in editorial publications.

“I feel lucky to have studied as an artist in the streets and later in a college,” he shared in an interview with Acclaim Magazine. “In doing so, I always felt like I had to keep my artistry of the streets and love of letters separate from what I was learning in school. I used to separate what I could create, so, for example, I would tell myself ‘this is for graffiti’, and ‘that is for the galleries’, today I don’t. Now I am combining my love of everything together, which you will begin to see unfold in the years to come.”

His work tends to center around two types of portraiture which he refers to as, “Topographical Portraiture” and “Type Faces.” While the Topographical Portraits are made by stylizing a portrait with topographical lines and shapes, in a similar manner to those found through images on geographic maps; his Type Faces incorporate typography and portraiture.

“I want to expand further on the concept of these type-based portraits,” he says. We sure hope his dream comes true!

The post From the Street to the Museum: These Portraits Are Based on Graffiti appeared first on PlayJunkie.

But nowadays, her art is a far cry from charcoal nudes. Loud, bold, and colorful, she creates powerful visuals using everything from markers to acrylics, pencils, and ink, and sometimes even her bare hands making the whole process a very personal one. As such, her art breaks the boundaries of how the body and facial features are illustrated through the fashion industry. In other words: she likes mixing things up!

But though her work is a vibrant mish-mash of sorts, she herself is much more subdued. “My work is usually very loud, bold, and somehow different from my very chill real-life personality,” she told Adobe’s online magazine. “It probably has to do with the fact that I get bored easily and love to experiment, and I find art to be the perfect way of expressing myself.”

Her energetic illustrations attracted the eye of various global brands and publications. “I’m constantly in a different headspace and love to think three steps ahead, and usually the next project is the most exciting one,” she says. “When working with clients, I really like a good brief, but I also love to come up with new stuff and usually do a bunch of explorations using the tools and colors that I feel work best or will help that specific brand communicate better.”

Take a look at some of her energetic work in the gallery below:

The post Andreea Robescu Makes Some Noise appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“A damaged butterfly, a broken twig, a bumblebee, some strangely grown weeds: I find all these unique discoveries in my path and then take them home to my studio,” she writes on her website. “Here, I take my time to explore the objects and try to work out how I can show each one to its best advantage.”

She collects her material from a variety of sources: the flowers she grows in her garden, second-hand picture books, and butterflies from the botanical garden in Utrecht. It’s these finds which inspire her work, allowing her to invent her own stories about their former existence. By protecting these pieces under glass, she gives the objects a second life, hoping to inspire people to make up their own stories about them.

“I hope it gives joy and that it inspires,” she said in an interview with Create Magazine. With more than 25k fans on Instagram, it’s clear that people are inspired.

The post Dutch Artist Brings Her Garden Inside appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Her embroidery pieces are removed from their traditional support to adorn plastic and metal. Being trained originally as a sculptor, she juxtaposes different materials and techniques to create an illusion of depth and to reconsider the definition of two and three-dimensional compositions. In the end, the pieces present symbolic allegories and literary allusions – a sort of poetic artwork that demands a closer look.

“Experimenting with thread and making knotted bracelets has always been my favorite thing to do,” she recalled. “It has followed me until today. Whether it is by working with thread or by representing its knots in my embroidered pieces, its lines are always present.”

“My sketchbook contains a lot more words than drawings, however, the initial concept changes tremendously in the making,” she says, explaining about the thought process behind her designs. “The original idea succumbs to the act of materialization, yet prior to the end, the idea is investigated, deepened and deconstructed throughout the evolving phases.”

Follow her Instagram page for more:

The post The Unique Textile Art of Anouk Desloges appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I use materials that are classed as femme, foolish, too much, and disposable; sequins, mirror, beauty supplies,” says DeJesus Moleski in an interview with Art of Choice. “In the lineage of drag and carnival, I re-claim these materials and let them take up space and ritual significance. For the past year I’ve centered light, mirror, and video as my primary materials. My main exploration has been around how I can have flamboyant material objects produce the ephemeral lighting conditions under which that object is seen. Sequin refracts video content into illegible constellations, mirrors bend white light into rainbows.”

Her process always begins with a “commitment to show up,” especially when she doesn’t know what she’s doing. “Material experimentation is a big part of how I begin, and most of it doesn’t amount to anything I would want to show people,” she jokes. “But I’ve learned that I have to do it. A lot of listening to music and trying to make rainbows in the dark.”

Based in New Haven, CT, the multidisciplinary artist has gained quite a following, with more than 8,000 fans on Instagram alone. “I see my drawings as one ongoing project,” she says, “wondering if repetitious symbols and communication through images can slip between the stubbornness of our words and shift our collective perceptions of being and belonging.”

Take a peek into her exciting worlds below.

The post This Artist Makes the Stuff of Dreams appeared first on PlayJunkie.