Source Design You Trust  Canadian Photographer of the Year 2024: Shane Turgeon The 2024 Canadian Photos of the Year Competition honored 14 outstanding winners who captured Canada’s breathtaking landscapes and wildlife. From lightning striking a golden canola field to an octopus mother guarding her eggs, the images highlight photography’s power to illuminate fleeting beauty. Judged…

Source Design You Trust  risten Margiotta is a Delaware‑based contemporary oil painter, illustrator, and art instructor whose work blends classical portrait skills with lowbrow / pop‑surreal influences like Tim Burton and Edward Gorey. A graduate of the University of Delaware’s Visual Communications/Illustration program, she has over 20 years of professional practice, developing a signature world…

Source Design You Trust  Caroline Gaudreault is a Canadian magical‑realist figurative painter from Alma, Québec, known for strange, classical‑looking portraits of animals and humans that sit somewhere between fairy tale, allegory, and fine art. She paints in oils (and sometimes watercolor) with a refined, almost academic touch, then inserts surreal details—anthropomorphic cats and birds, ornate…

Source Colossal   Located in the Yangtze River Delta, Hangzhou is enmeshed in waterways. The city’s center abuts a large lake and sits just north of the Qiantang River, infamous for its magnificent tidal bore that sweeps through the region each fall. For their latest project presented in the Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art at Zhejiang…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  In Troels Carlsen’s exhibition Alt flyder – Everything flows – nothing is permanent, and everything is connected. Flora and fauna are quite literally intertwined in Carlsen’s large tableaus, often painted with acrylics on intricately collaged archival material sourced from antiquarian bookstores.

Source Design You Trust  “Storm Over Fields” by J. Fritz Rumpf The 12th International Landscape Photography Awards has unveiled its 2025 winners, and the collection is nothing short of breathtaking. At the forefront is J. Fritz Rumpf from the United States, whose portfolio earned the top honor with images that radiate patience, precision, and passion.…

Source Design You Trust  1st Place Winner: “Drift” by G. Govil Silhouette photography has a unique power to transform ordinary moments into striking visual poetry. The 14th Annual Mobile Photography Awards showcased this magic with 33 breathtaking winners in the Silhouette category, all captured on mobile phones. Each image turns shadows into bold storytelling, from…

Source Colossal   When we look at a leaf, we see a predominantly flat plane, intersected by a midrib and myriad veins, or perhaps dotted with ailments like fungi or the eggs of insects. But imagine what these bits of foliage would look like if blown up like balloons. Artist Syd Carpenter responds “to the garden…