Nicholas Wilton II

Nicholas Wilton is an American artist who works with colour and line in large abstract compositions. Nicholas shares his techniques and enthusiasm on his blog with many inspiring videos.

Gemma Koomen

Gemma Kooman often works with bird themes, these are from a series of 'Bird Friend' images.
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Michela Sorrentino

Abstract paintings by Canadian designer and artist Michela Sorrentino. Michela worked for many years in Europe and Asia as a textile designer but in recent years has changed her main medium to painting. Thank you  

Julie S Graham

Julie S. Graham's Chords, I love these rough slabs of paper as the basis of small abstract works.

Miroslava Rakovic III

Miroslava Rakovic's abstract print compositions. Miroslava is an artist from Serbia who works across the genres of painting, illustration and graphic design.

Mirco Marchelli

A selection of works by Italian artist and creative Mirco Marchelli .

Makoto Maruyama II

We have been house sitting in London for two weeks, stepping from our lives into a similar but different reality for a while,  taking care of a beautiful cat. These houses and single interior by Makoto Maruyama illustrate beautifully the feeling of being away with a few familiar belongings in the beauty of a domestic setting, with the select characters and items having different scales jigsawing themselves into the composition.

A Butterfly

I saw a butterfly soaring from the double yellows of North London today. I love seeing (and looking for) strange things, in strange places.

Pouké Halpern I

Pouké Halpern is a food stylist and artist who has different styles in photography, paper or paint but all have a aesthetic and sublime beauty. Her paintings are often subtle pale still lives bordering on abstraction, with a soft cubism, like that of twentieth century British artists Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson.

Candela Ferdmann

'Adventure' by Candela Ferdmann an Argentinian illustrator. The illustration incorporates wood grain in the beautiful indigo water and uses collage to place the little swimmers on it's surface.

Patricia Tewel IV

Happy to rediscover Argentinian illustrator Patricia Tewel's work today and her airy, spacious, collaged illustrations that make you want to fly.

Makoto Maruyama I

Naive wonder from Japanese illustrator Makoto Maruyama 

Catia Chien I

Todays illustrations are from 'The Sea Serpent and Me' written by Dashka Slater and illustrated by Catia Chien whose soft works have a joy, empathy and humour that reaches out to the viewer.
I really loved hearing Catia talk about her work and how she came to find her voice in illustration.

Ralph Steadman

Picture Puffins are often special, lost treasures. 

'Fly Away Peter' by author and cartoonist Frank Dickens was first published in 1964. It has delicious ink and wash illustrations by Ralph Steadman and tells the story of a friendship between two characters that are different; Jeffrey the giraffe who has a short neck, and Peter a bird who can't fly. They decide to play together, but a simple  game of hide-and-seek gets complicated, and eventually involves all of the animals.