Source Design You Trust  Very Highly Commended: Mike Rowe The SINWP Bird Photographer of the Year 2024 concluded its seventh year, featuring over 2,300 entries that celebrated the beauty and diversity of birdlife. The 25 winning photos showcase captivating moments—from soaring kingfishers to courtship displays—highlighting the photographers’ talent and raising awareness of avian conservation. More:…

Source Design You Trust  Lilyillo (born 1981, Sydney) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Canberra, working across watercolour, drawing, and digital AI to explore personal stories, family history, identity, craftsmanship, and acts of making and unmaking. She has exhibited widely in Australia and overseas, minted work on multiple blockchains, received an Australia Council for the…

Source Design You Trust  Burton Holmes (1870–1958), an American travel writer, photographer, and lecturer, is often hailed as the “father of travelogues” for his innovative approach to documenting global journeys through film. His engaging lectures, featuring motion pictures and hand-colored slides, introduced American audiences to the rich cultures and landscapes of far-off destinations. Holmes’ pioneering…

Source Colossal   A posse of vibrant creatures slyly scope out their surroundings in prints by Jo Pearson, a.k.a. Strangford. From pigeons and rabbits to alligators and fish, the artist’s most recent creations expand upon her previous works featuring playful animals. In the last year, Strangford has gradually shifted her practice toward carving wood, contrasting her…

Source Colossal   Verdant scenery inhabited by vibrant wildlife and graceful feminine figures center in the work of Rupy C. Tut, whose paintings (previously) draw upon her Sikh ancestry and experiences emigrating from India as a young girl. “As an environmentalist and Indian-American woman, she never takes place for granted,” says a statement from Jessica Silverman…

Source Artsy Shark  Artist Lee Ann Heltzel presents a collection of immersive meditative art created to produce higher awareness. The post Featured Artist Lee Ann Heltzel appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Kyle Dunn’s paintings are a tour de force and a tour of art history. I remember Dunn telling us a few years ago, “As I work half-autobiographically and half-fictitiously, sometimes people assume that what I am painting is one hundred percent earnest, when it is really leaning…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  To speak of a country or land of the sun in reference to Salah Elmur’s paintings is to immerse oneself in the Sudan of Khartoum and the banks of the Nile, where the artist spent his childhood. It was after a spell in prison for a cartoon…