Source Colossal   If you, like us, haven’t finished your holiday shopping and have the hard-to-shop-for folks left on your list, consider a Colossal Membership: an easy-to-procure yet meaningful gift for the creative folks in your life. Your beloved recipient will gain access to exciting stories about art and visual culture uninterrupted by ads, the ability…

Source Design You Trust  Victoria Rose Richards is a UK-based artist who creates intricate aerial embroidery inspired by the countryside’s fields, forests, and rivers. Recently, she has shifted from organic designs to exploring symmetry and geometry, drawing influence from crop circles, classical gardens, and rice terraces. Her circular embroidery begins at the center, spreading outward…

Source Colossal   For more than a decade, we’ve been following the intricate dioramas by Hari & Deepti (previously). The Mumbai-based husband and wife are known for their elaborate narratives of cut and layered paper, which they tuck inside frames and backlight with soft LEDs. In recent years, the duo has gravitated toward tiny, delicate patterns…

Source Design You Trust  Joe Fenton is a British artist celebrated for his surreal, intricately detailed pen-and-ink drawings that merge ancient religious art with interplanetary iconography. His work blends Eastern and Western traditions, creating a timeless aesthetic inspired by masters like Gustave Doré, M.C. Escher, and Hieronymus Bosch. Before focusing on personal art, Joe illustrated…

Source Colossal   From digital glitches to mind-bending distortions, Mexico City-based artist Alexis Mata is interested in how visual information gets lost or skewed as it shifts from one context to another. In his oil paintings, bouquets and vast desert landscapes spread across the canvas as if melting or stretching into unrecognizable forms. “When your eyes…

Source Artsy Shark  Featured artist Marsha Wilson presents a fascinating collection of intricate artwork created using pyrography. The post Featured Artist Marsha Wilson appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  As soon as I first read about the practice of London-based Christian Quin Newell, I knew I wanted to interview him. His show there this past summer at Public Gallery was a collection of—and I directly quote—“Cosmological paintings opening up portals to an internal realm informed by…

Source Colossal   For more than a decade, French artists Louis Boidron and Édouard Egea have been collaborating as MonkeyBird (previously). The pair are known for their large-scale stenciled murals rich with symbolism, architectural structures, and elaborate motifs, many of which reach for timeless themes related to human emotion, experience, and the inevitability of change. “The…