The Door of Perception
For 15 years Paul Noble is building his imaginary city called Nobson. He presents this world in isometric projection only and I would love to pay this place a visit. There’s so much to discover. I can’t stop looking at it.
What is it that makes isometric illustration so appealing?
Watching this video, I felt captured by a primal feeling of awe. One of these rare moments when we glimpse how inconceivably vast and powerful this reality is.
This book is a New Age classic but just one of many publications in the same spirit springing from the counterculture of the late 1960s.
David Uzochukwu (born 1998) is an Austrian-Nigerian artist engaging with longing and belonging through (self) portraiture. He uses photography and…
Rajni Perera paints a vibrant sci-fi universe ruled by hybrid deities, demons, and powerful black heroines.
Why is it that looking at an open body causes such revulsion?
The book Kunstformen der Natur (German for Art Forms of Nature) by the biologist Ernst Haeckel is a masterpiece of art and science.
A primal heart still beats in Europe. Rural people all over the continent kept the connection to nature’s rhythm and celebrate the seasonal cycle. They invoke death but bestow fertile life.
Franciszek Starowieyski liked to think of himself as a draftsman from the 17th century. The lushness of form and erotic exuberance is truly Baroque.
I grew up with Tintin and I just realized how formative Hergé’s ‘ligne claire’ was for me. His distinct visual…
The drawn structures depict the unfathomable abundance of sensuous impulses, in order to make it available for fresh examination.
No introduction needed. Here’s Abdul Mati Klarwein. Maybe I feel especially familiar with his style of painting because it was…
Back in the early 1970s, Phil Kirkland created surreal textbook illustrations, mostly for psychology and health books.
Rebecca Reeve creates portals from the domestic into the wilderness with a bit of household drapery.
The ancient and the yet unseen echoes through these arabesque hyper realms, with an almost hallucinatory effect.
Visually arresting and conceptually rigorous, the graphic design of Boris Bućan has recently experienced renewed international interest.
After so much exploring the inner worlds and energetic realms, back to matter.
La Planète sauvage is a classic of surreal animation. But it’s far more than just dazzlingly beautiful, it holds many thought-provoking ideas to contemplate on.
Sophy Hollington is a Brighton-based illustrator who has made a name for herself through her unique take on futuristic folklore realized in linocut.
Her body of work is an expression of her sensuality as a woman going through the different stages of pregnancy from conception to birth to motherhood.
There is already another post about Philip Kirkland but these images I’ve just found deserve to stand alone.
