Minni Havas is a freelance illustrator based in Helsinki, Finland. After studying fashion design she now focuses on fashion illustration. Minni uses colour pencils to draw detailed pictures with magical colours and arrangements somewhere in the borderlands of the real and the imaginary. Represented by Pekka Agency.
Mark Demsteader is probably one of Britain’s best-selling figurative painters. In 1997 he became a founder member of the Neomodern Art Group founded by Guy Denning. He has held an annual solo exhibition with Panter & Hall in the West End of London since 2004. He is now represented in Daikanyama, Japan by Art Obsession.
Next exhibitions are: Life the gallery, Amsterdam. may 11- 1 june
The Avenue restaurant, St James`s London, 4 June – 13 July
Bunkamura, shibuya, Tokyo Japan. May 29 -10 June
Valerie Chiang is a 19 years old photographer based in Raleigh, North Carolina and Los Angeles. She is a film production major at the University of Southern California. Last two years she has exhibited different series worldwide.
Michael Carson is an American artist who was born in 1972 in Minneapolis, MN. After Art and Design he started working as a graphic artist and found his calling and in 2001, started painting full time. Influenced by the paintings of Toulouse Lautrec, Norman Rockwell, Malcolm Liepke, and Milt Kobayashi, Michael Carson is primarily a figurative Artist who likes to tell a story. Michael Carson is a bold new talent emerging on the art scene represented by Jones & Terwilliger Galleries.
James Boast is a freelance illustrator based in the south east of England. He studied illustration at Middlesex University. His work is quite minimalist with a very nice style.
Shawn Huckins is an American painter living in Denver, Colorado. He studied architecture and film before focusing on painting with inspiration from 18th century American neoclassical painters to 20th century pop artists. His work is developed like a contemporary discourse on American culture. He is known for The Paint Chip Series featuring several large canvases painted to resemble various color swatches and incorporating some mundane image drawn from the everyday.
Storm Elvin Thorgerson was an English graphic designer and photographer, he died 18 April 2013. His name is not very well known but his work for rock bands since the late sixties will remain among the most popular. He was commissionned by bands such as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Scorpions, Genesis, Europe, Peter Gabriel, Yes, the Alan Parsons Project, 10cc, Bad Company, Paul McCartney & Wings, The Cranberries, Yourcodenameis:milo, The Mars Volta, Muse or Biffy Clyro… A graphic work that was very important at a time people still bought records.
As a photographer and inspired by surrealist painter René Magritte, he said that some of his works beg the question of is it real or not? He was a teenage friend of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and in 1968 along with Aubrey Powell he founded the graphic art group Hipgnosis, and between them they designed many famous single and album covers like the famous “Dark side of the moon”. Storm Thorgerson is considered the best album designer of all time.
Abbey Mc Culloch is an Australian artist who was born in 1975, and resides in Queensland. Her great characters are hyper-coloured with strange proportions. Abbey Mc Culloch focuses on women, exploring different kind of personalities.
Skipped heart beats is Irina Munteanu’s portfolio on Flickr. Irina is a very young photographer from Constan?a, Romania. She currently is in highschool and getting ready for college, planning to stay in the photography world. Her photographs are expressing emotions or words she couldn’t shape or didn’t get the chance to speak. No doubt Irina Munteanu is developping a very subtle yet meaningful language.
Rozenn LG is a French illustrator based in London. Her work is a very stylish minimal vector design perfect for fashion and high end illustration. Represented in the UK by the very Handsome Frank.
