I first came across the work of Oscar Reutersvärd on Swedish postage stamps. He’s widely acknowledged as the father of the impossible figure.
Let’s lose ourselves in the contemplation of the paradox. I imagine it helpful to loosen narrow views.
Jonathan Zawada
Over Time
Landscape topographies derived from graph data were modeled in 3D and then oil paintings created from those 3D renders.
Seasons of Mars
Wind, dunes and dry ice
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter circles the red planet since 2006. The little spacecraft sends high-res pictures of Mars’ surface ever since.
Ben Tolman
Detailed views on inner landscapes
Ben Tolman’s ink drawings reflect the fact that there is a subtle world we only perceive in non-ordinary states of consciousness.
Augustin Lesage
The voices you heard were real
In 1912, the pitface miner Augustin Lesage heard a voice telling him that he was going to become a painter…
Storm Thorgerson
Taken by Storm
Thorgerson’s metaphorical language to me feels like as if Magritte would have been into photography instead of painting.
Orgyan Chopel
New Visions in Thangkas
Orgyan Chopel translates cryptic Buddhism into a simplified language of symbols, easier to understand and accept.
Maxfield Parrish
The Doctrine of Divine Light
Maxfield Parrish captures a light mood in his paintings that feels supernatural and very real and tangible at the same time.
Steve Axford
Fungi, the recyclers
Steve Axford does what he likes most. It’s taking pictures and exploring the living world that unfolds evermore interconnectedness to him.
Raffaello Ossola
Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea
The subject of Swiss painter Raffaello Ossola is consistent. He paints gateways into an ethereal realm.
Jorinde Voigt
In Search of Meaning
The drawn structures depict the unfathomable abundance of sensuous impulses, in order to make it available for fresh examination.
Justine Kurland
Escape into a better world
To me these pictures present a futuristic vision rather than a look back at our savage ancestors.
Daniel Stier
Ways Of Knowing
A personal project exploring the real world of scientific research. Not the stainless steel surfaces bathed in purple light, but real people in their basements working on selfbuilt contraptions
Hans Bellmer
Degenerate Art
Hans Bellmer was a photographer, sculptor, printmaker, painter and writer.
Joth Shakerley
The Rainbow Tribe
Joth Shakerley is following the Rainbow Family for over twenty years. The pictures he brought back are beyond words.
William Blake
The Book of Job as an Encounter with the Self
A numinous, archetypal event that can lead to enhanced consciousness and is therefore crucial to the psyche of modern man.
Alex Grey
How Art Evolves Consciousness
Alex Grey is best known for his paintings of see-through humans interwoven in the realm of energy. Until I experienced…
Berndnaut Smilde
Making Clouds
Berndnaut Smilde performs magic. I don’t need to know how he’s creating his indoor clouds but I love it. I totally share his fascination with clouds.
Jean Delville
The Age Of Splendor
Jean Delville was a Belgian painter who painted heavily symbolic scenes with a occult oriented spiritual perspective.
Ernst Fuchs
Architectura caelestis
Ernst Fuchs was one of the most influential masters of the visionary arts movement.
Pierre Radisic
Heavenly Bodies
The skin of another is as cryptic as the vastness of the heavens above. But we try to find meaning, with celestial maps of heavenly bodies.
