Here are some illustrations from Ghosts in the House' by Kazuno Kohara. Kazuno Kohara graduated from Cambridge School of art in 2007 and this wonderful book 'Ghosts in the house' was voted one of the ten best illustrated children's books in 2008 by the New York Times Book Review. Happy Halloween.
I like the way Karlee's deer grow into there environment and visa vera, there antlers sprout into foliage or their backs develope into thickets, and again the colour is just the tonic needed for the first day of winter.
I am hungry for colour again and for me it is like a hunger. So I am revisiting Australian artist Karlee Rawkins with her vibrant colour and exciting visually stimulating style.
My submission for Camilla Engman's book full of Morran, is a wardrobe for the very stylish Morran.
Eva Orrsjo traces tiny hints of human presence with rhythmical brush strokes. The light from a window a chair pulled out, small evidences of humanity depicted in immense environments.
Vally Nomidou has made these beautiful and yet disturbing full sized figures from paper and cardboard for an exhibition called 'Let it Bleed'
Takahiro Kimura is a Japanese animator, illustrator and character designer who for the last twenty years has been developing his unique collages that are mainly portraits. These are very fractures and distorted renditions of the complexity of human nature and personality.
I am not usually in such an abstract mood, but at the moment this is the style of work that is catching my eye. Adele Sypesteyn is an American painter based in New Orleans her works are layered texture, colour and pattern, Her inspiration the weathering and degradation of lived in spaces, the aging of our human environments.
Karen Shapiro is fantastic, she makes crazy ceramics based on real branded items but with such skill that they are completely believable. Karen has a pharmacy of drugs, tins and tubes. A cosmetic stall with mascara, lipstick and face powder. Food, do you want Frosties, Mayonnaise, mustard or sweets? Or maybe you need some matches and house hold oil? Karen has made them all accurately and beautifully.
Michael Cutlip's paintings are strata's, layered or peeled, they mimic street art and the degradation of hoardings and graffiti in there eroded nature. Michael's paintings also have that precious quality of refinement some resemble beautiful patchwork quilts or carefully curated collections, all have precious details and choreographed collisions of imagery.
Rusty Wolfe's paintings use beautiful colours that interact in a balanced, calm way. Rusty Wolfe works across disciplines as a painter, sculptor and furniture designer.
Matias Krahn is a Chilean artist now settled in Barcelona. Krahn's works are usually anchored to a phrases from a poem or literature. Krahn's paintings, I am happy to say, are constantly evolving and this evolution is interesting to observe through his past exhibitions.
I wish I could share more of Jenny Ahlner's work but the images are scarce, and too blurry or tiny. Jenny's work has wonderful colour and composition and I am hoping to be able to feature more of it in the future.
I love seagulls as you know, and oh how I love these paintings from an art collective called ArtHouse, I would love to see these made as tapestry's, they are just perfect with there wonderful muted pallet of colours and wonderful shapes. These paintings are available at Bohemia Gallery.
Josh Blackwell makes plastic bags into something special here are two of his bags made into beehive portraits. 
