illustration Archives

Michel Henricot
The Chrysalis of the Human Being

The portrayed bodies are realistically drawn yet seem to herald a transcendent realm of essence beyond life and death.

Julius Horsthuis
All These Unseen Worlds

My kind of art is showing something that exists. The fractal exists. I didn’t create it, I didn’t come up with it, I found it.

Arata Isozaki
Essence of Form and Values

These drawings and prints by Arata Isozaki visualize the fundamental concepts behind some of his most iconic buildings.

Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky

A cloud atlas is a visual representation of various cloud types, including their classification and naming conventions.

Leonor Fini
Queen of the Underworld

Fini’s work blends elements of surrealism, symbolism, and fantastical imagery, with a fearless exploration of genderfluid identities and depictions of feminine energy.

Daniel Coe
The Flow of Time

In this ongoing series Dan Coe uses open-source Lidar data to illustrate the evolution of rivers and deltas.

Martín Bollati
This Past Does Not Exist

The publication uses AI to mash up ages, geographies and traditions, creating virtual artifacts indistinguishable from historical records.

Friedrich W. Stumpfi
Cosmic Fertilization of the Spirit

He calls himself a cosmic illustrator, visual alchemist and psychonaut. All images are from his left hand.

Molly Greene
False Vegetation Gods

I hope that I’m starting to play in that space between conventional ideas of what a human should be and what a human could be.

Sharon Ellis
Tumult in Earth, Calm in Heaven

Her vibrant nature scenes convey a sense of the divine in nature and are reminiscent of the Transcendental Painting Group.

Friedrich
Schröder Sonnenstern
Lunatic or Artist

After a tumultuous life, often in conflict with the law, including periods in psychiatric hospitals, the founding of a sect and practicing as a fortune teller and healer, he began to draw at the age of 57.

Marjorie Cameron
Songs for the Witch Woman

Cameron was an American artist, poet, actress, and occultist who emerged as a key figure in the California counterculture movement in the 1950s and 60s.

Lloyd Kahn
Shelter not Cabinporn

Lloyd Kahn is arguably the most influential pioneer of the DIY building movement that emerged in the 1960s.

Freddy Mamani
Totems of Andean Futurism

His buildings are nothing less than an exuberant act of self-expression by Bolivia’s long-marginalized indigenous majority.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal
The Beautiful Brain

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist and pathologist who is considered the father of modern neuroscience.

David Uzochukwu
Drown in my Magic

David Uzochukwu (born 1998) is an Austrian-Nigerian artist engaging with longing and belonging through (self) portraiture. He uses photography and…

Sophy Hollington
Carving New Realities

Sophy Hollington is a Brighton-based illustrator who has made a name for herself through her unique take on futuristic folklore realized in linocut.

The Root Atlas
Unearthed Intelligence

The following drawings are taken from the Wurzelatlas, a book series that began in 1960 and is regarded as the standard work on root research.

Emma Larsson
Dreams of Beings Alive

She describes her work as an ongoing exploration without rules and conventions, inspired by the desire to live.

Planetary Healers Manual
Survival into the 21st Century

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.

Peter Birkhäuser
Light from the Darkness

Few artists have so powerfully evoked the uncanny otherness of the unconscious like Swiss artist Peter Birkhäuser.

Irene Hardwicke Olivieri
Rewilding the Heart

Her paintings speak to us with such a refreshing immediacy, reminding us how wild it is to be alive.

Julia Turk
Navigators Tarot of the Mystic Sea

I have always been drawn to things I found suggestive but couldn’t understand. The tarot is such a theme that speaks to my imagination but I can’t explain what it really is.

Marcelo Pinel
Cyber Mystic Garden

A laboratory in constant change, a small museum of desires and dreams that amuse the inner child.

Kaljo Põllu
Eternity, Heaven and Earth

Like a deep well evoking forgotten concepts about origins, belonging, and the presence of spiritual forces in the world.

Wolfgang Hutter
Unquenched Desires and the Big Fear

Wolfgang Hutter was clearly gifted with an exceptional receptivity to feel the call of beauty and the creative power to translate it back into form.

Loie Hollowell
Maternal Embodiment

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.

Hamzeh Carr
The Light of Asia

The Light of Asia is a famous narrative poem that tells the life and time of Prince Gautama Siddhartha, who after attaining enlightenment, became the Buddha.

Gage Taylor
The Holy Grove

His meticulously rendered landscapes suggest a nostalgia for Eden and the availability of peace and joy through an expanded awareness of the beauty inherent in the land.