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Vibrant Victorian-Era Transparencies Illuminate a Host of Microscopic Creatures
Source Colossal During the Victorian era, innovators made huge leaps with optical technologies. It was the period of the stereoscope and an early projector known as the magic lantern, not to mention one in which eyeglasses became more affordable and entering the mainstream. These advances also influenced scientific inquiry, making microscopes more powerful, and the…
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Featured Artist Mary Watkins
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Kim Dacres Revitalizes Sleek Tires, Chains, and Gears in Defiant Sculptures
Source Colossal Kim Dacres gravitates toward renewal and care, transforming worn rubber into expressive sculptural portraits. The New York-based artist twists and braids tired treads into sleek buns and rows typical of Black hairstyles, which she embellishes with gear-like crowns and jewelry made of metal bike chains. Spray painting the material to mask marks, Dacres…
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Retro Games, Movies and Pop Culture Idols Meet Fine Art in Ivana Belianska’s Detail-Obsessed Pixel Artworks
Source Design You Trust Ivana Belianska is a digital pixel artist who creates nostalgic, detail-rich illustrations blending retro gaming aesthetics with contemporary storytelling. Her work features pixel self-portraits, Spirited Away homages, post-apocalyptic Nintendo 64 scenes, and custom pixel portraits. Belianska holds a master’s in art and invests 10+ hours per piece, emphasizing tiny details and…
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Surreal Emotional Portraits, Floating Figures and The Acrylic World Of Contemporary Painter Elliot Wair
Source Design You Trust Elliot Wair (born 2003) is a South East England-based contemporary painter working in acrylic on panel. Wair’s surrealism portrays complex emotional ideas through otherworldly concepts—floating figures, crab-roofed houses, dissolving forms, and shadow-collecting scenes (“Collecting My Shadow Before I Have Finished With It,” “I’m Scared Of Dissolving Into You”). He maintains childish…
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Minimalist Ballerinas And Contorted Emotion: The Dark Expressionism Of Painter Otto
Source Design You Trust Otto is a 22-year-old self-taught French painter who works in Paris and has exhibited at Very Art Gallery. His dark, minimalist expressionism features elongated ballerinas, contorted figures, and emotional abstraction on paper using ink, charcoal, and paint. Recurring motifs include addiction, memory, contrast, and choice (“No choice,” “Addiction,” “Souviens toi”), blending…
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In Monica Rohan’s Paintings, Tablecloths and Chairs Uncannily Perch in Remote Landscapes
Source Colossal Home might be a mutable concept, but some objects retain the aura of belonging and comfort even outside the walls we reside in. For Monica Rohan, those items are patterned fabrics and bentwood dining chairs, which venture outdoors in her vibrant oil paintings. The Brisbane-based artist has long depicted the supple folds and…
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Melancholic Tokyo Skyscrapers And Marina Bay Sands Through Perry Lam’s Dreamlike Artworks
Source Design You Trust Perry Lam is a Hong Kong-based architect, vaporwave visual artist, and AI image creator. Lam blends architectural photography (Marina Bay Sands, Tokyo skyscrapers) with vaporwave edits, dreamstate compositions, and AI-generated art (“Crystal Cove,” “Lucid State,” “Quiet Happiness,” “Lucid Land”). His aesthetic fuses neon futurism, nostalgic grids, and urban melancholy. More: Instagram