Kirsty Whiten

Kirsty Whiten has an eye for strange compositions. I especially like her new series of feral people living in the forest, can't wait for more.

Andrew Hem

Andrew Hem (his name can be shorted to Ahem. ) creates worlds that hover on the edge of reality. These are surreal places, but ones you could almost step into, like when you have a dream about being naked in a shopping center.

Kupcsik Adrián

Kupcsik Adrián creates these meticulous architectural and industrial paintings that on closer inspection turn out to be of completely absurd and non-functional objects. Kind of Escher like.

Tony Cran

Sorry readers for the lack of new posts recently. I've got a mural to do and an exhibition on soon.

Tony Cran's 2010 series consists of charming, magical portraits of gutter weeds, as well as mixed-media sculptures in bell-jars. Somehow they stay just on the right side of twee.  I apologise for the poor image quality. I got them from the Helen Gory gallery's website where they were tiny and had to  ENHANCE like a CSI episode.

Check out his earlier work as well.

Euan Macleod

If you've visited a major gallery in Australia or New Zealand you've probably come across one of Euan Macleod's strange, lonely landscapes. Still, you can't have too much of a good thing. The last one of these is actually the cover of a book about him: Euan Macleod- The Painter in the Painting which is a really fantastic collection of his work. I highly recommend checking your library for it (or buying it if you're flush, it's usually pretty expensive.)

Dave Rapoza

You may have already seen some of Dave Rapoza's fully sick concept art, but if you haven't, take a look at these gritty TMNT re-whateverings. Cowabunga!

Joseba Eskubi

Joseba Eskubi's paintings really put me in mind of early Surrealism, maybe Max Ernst or someone like that. They're lush, mostly abstract and he often uses collage and mixed media.

He also takes sumptuous extreme-close-ups of his own work, for added awesome.