Born on this Day: William Blake – Poet, Artist, Visionary
Visionary artist William Blake was born in Soho on the 28th November 1757. He left school at ten to attend a drawing academy in the Strand and read voraciously, going...
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InkTober: Time to Brush Up on your Ink Drawing
If you’ve been on Instagram in the past week or so, you’ve most likely encountered the hashtag #inktober. But what is InkTober and where did it come from? For the...
These Freaky Chapman Brothers Etchings Illustrate Their Relationship Perfectly
Today, on National Sibling Day, it seems appropriate to draw your attention to one of the more famous and productive sibling relationships – the ‘enfants terrible’ of the art world...
On the Record – Sara Roizen’s Vibrant Vinyl Mandalas Dazzle and Delight
Taking inspiration in part from traditional Buddhist art, Sara Roizen has been using stencils, acrylic and paint pens to make dizzying artworks in a modern update of an ancient practice....
Laurie Hogin’s Paintings Are Just As Disturbing As Google DeepDream
There’s something unsettling about American artist Laurie Hogin’s paintings. They feature landscapes populated by strange creatures with hollow eyes and sharp teeth. These alarming birds and mammals look like something...
Beautiful Layered Glass Sculptures
Sculpture is one of the most intricate and impressive forms of three-dimensional art, and it offers artists a range of mediums to work in, including stone, ice, lead, charcoal, sand...
Hip-Hop Inspired Cover Remixes from Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics and hip-hop music aren’t two things that most people would instinctively put together, but like a lot of the world’s greatest odd but successful combinations, the two go...
Stunning Beach Sculptures from Calvin Seibert
Sand has grown in popularity in recent years as an artistic medium, with beach sculptures making regular appearances in seaside towns across the UK and internationally. Some of them are...
Beautiful and Delicate Cut Paper Flowers
Working with paper is not by any means an unusual medium for an artist, but paper-cutting creative Maude White has taken this fairly standard medium and turned it into something...
Beautiful Wooden Sculptures from Stefanie Rocknak
New York based artist Stefanie Rocknak has produced a series of beautiful and intricate wooden sculptures that wonderfully capture expression, movement and detail on an unbelievable scale. Creating her sculptures...
Banksy’s ‘Sirens of the Lambs’ Tours New York
Banky’s provocative new work ‘Sirens of the Lambs’ has been seen touring the streets of New York; marking a shift in his usual modus operandi from street art to something...