Interview With Artist, Ashley Christudason.
Ashley Christudason is a digital artist out of Singapore who is dedicated to creating pieces that promote the inherent (but unfortunately obscured) oneness within all of mankind.
Read MoreInterview With Graphic Designer, Freddy Bernard (@ink_mad).
Graphic Designer Freddy Bernard (hailing from the French West Indies and currently residing in France) has made an impression on social media sites like Tumblr and Instagram with his humanizations of characters from Disney's classic film, "The Lion King". With an impressive and believable depiction of these beloved characters, Freddy showcases his outstanding talent and love for the timeless source material he was compelled to reimagine.
Read MoreInterview With Visual Artist, Melissa Williams of Misprint.
Melissa Williams is a freelance artist (operating out of Melbourne, Australia) that has used her impressive eye for color to create epic art for musicians, retailers (which has given her an insider look at the entrepreneurial side of the business), and everyday consumers.
Read MoreInterview With Painter, Danny O'Connor.
By utilizing elemental juxtaposition, Danny is able to create complex and hefty pieces that touch on themes like life, death, and growth with a unique kind of vibrancy. When his work isn’t touching on deeper existential concepts and motifs, they’re paying homage to the beauty of femininity and nature. There is a captivating structure to Danny’s pieces that give them an unmistakable verve and aesthetic, so much so, that he has been commissioned by several individuals and establishments to paint murals, portraits, and other pieces.
Read MoreInterview With Painter, Michael D'Antuono.
Michael’s work, while poignant, emotional, and hauntingly beautiful, manages to critique our current governmental policy and climate with razor sharp depictions of the injustices that they have caused. His pieces don’t just aim to point out some of the issues we’re facing in contemporary America, they seek to foster important dialogue about the choices we continue to make as a “sovereign” collective and if those choices can ever truly lead to better future for those who reside within it.
Read MoreInterview With Visual Artist, Soosh.
Russian artist Soosh (currently living in Ukraine) has garnered serious praise in recent months after releasing a series of watercolor paintings detailing the importance of fatherhood for young women. Soosh, like so many others, grew up without her father, an unfortunate and sweeping trend here in the United States as well. The absence and longing for a patriarchal figure in her life lead to the creation of this series as a way to help herself and others who may have experienced the same thing.
Read MoreInterview With Visual Artist, Cameron Gray.
Visual artist Cameron Gray (operating out of Melbourne, Australia) is using his skills in several different mediums to create spiritually tinged, hyper-realistic canvases that showcase the divinity of the highly coveted psychotropic landscape. Although careful not to proselytize, his work does a masterful job of telling stories of ascension and oneness, while giving the experiencer the space to project his or her own meaning onto his works.
Read MoreInterview With Artist and Musician, Simon Haiduk.
Like many other artists in this fascinating genre, Simon has done a commendable job at replicating the energies that one may find themselves coming into contact while under the tutelage of spiritual or psychedelic sacraments. With a reverence for nature and the beings that dwell within it, Simon has consistently used this as a source of inspiration and empowerment, allowing him to produce magnificent portraits and tapestries.
Read MoreInterview With Visual Artist, Brian Pollett.
Brian Pollett is a visual artist that is blending the powerful magic of narcotic substances with the digital wizardry made possible by computer software. With an affinity for these tools (most notably Methoxethamine), Brian has incorporated them into his artistic schema to create the Binge series.
Read MoreInterview With Visual Artist, Adam Lupton.
Vancouver’s Adam Lupton is currently releasing some of the most magnificent material I have seen in some time. Many of the themes in his pieces relate to the human condition and our innate tendency to overanalyze, brood, or falter when confronted with choice.
Read MoreInterview With Visual Artist, Manú Menéndez.
Manú Menéndez is an incredible artist operating out of Mexico and creating marvelous, psychedelic imagery. Propelled by his intense connection to the universal impetus (or the Divine Source), Manú has been producing wonderful pieces that seem to be ripped directly from the primordial dreamscape. Viewing himself as a child of life, he uses experience and passion to craft these impeccable works.
Understanding that love is the ultimate unifier of human consciousness, Manú is sure to approach every idea with as much reverie and dedication as the one proceeding it in his own personal quest to raise the spiritual frequency of the planet.
Read MoreInterview With Digital Artist, Monique Munoz.
Monique Munoz is an up and coming artist out of Toronto, Canada that is creating magnificent, psychedelic art. Influenced by artists like Hayao Miyazaki, Alex Grey, and Japanese Role Playing Games, Monique is creating a more Eastern (almost minimalist feel when viewed side by side with some of her contemporaries) standard here in the Western world.
With many digital artists gravitating towards more realistic pieces, it is quite refreshing to see an artist produce works that are unflinchingly whimsical and upbeat. With such an eye for color, it is no wonder that Monique's work has captured the eye of gallery owners and clothing distributors. Marvelous messages about childhood, compassion, and positivity are prevalent themes throughout her work and it's wonderful to see that she is beginning to make waves with her art.
Read MoreInterview With Nature Photographer, Marsel van Oosten.
Marsel van Oosten is a celebrated photographer hailing from The Netherlands. Before jumping into Nature Photography, he studied Graphic Design, Art Direction and worked as an Art Director in advertising. His position in the latter contributed to his eye for detail. After becoming disenchanted with his former profession, he decided to take up photography and in the process, discovered his true artistic calling.
Read MoreInterview With Digital Artist, Android Jones.
Andrew “Android” Jones is an extremely skilled digital painter that continues to blur the line between abstract psychedelia and computer generated realism. During college, he interned at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), one of cinema’s most prestigious special effects institutions. He then went on to work at Nintendo as a character concept artist which aided in the creation of his own company, Massive Black, and helped to round out his vision as an artist.
Read MoreBrief Interview With Graphic Artist, Eugenia Loli.
Digital artist Eugenia Loli hails from Greece and currently resides in California. After dabbling in a few fields (Nursing, Computer Programming, Filmmaking) she ultimately has decided to use her skills as an animator to produce wonderful, mind-bending collages. I loved her work so much that I even decided to use her piece "No More Galaxies for Today, Timmy!" as the cover art for my first release "Promenade Through the 4th Dimension".
Read MoreInterview With Photographer, Mikko Lagerstedt.
I was scrolling through Tumblr a few months ago and discovered the beautiful photography of Finnish artist, Mikko Lagerstedt. His work, while very interesting and unique, still manages to convey an absolutely breathtaking aesthetic. An aesthetic that is at times surreal and haunting, but all the while maintaining a certain kind of complacency; Perfectly depicting the mystical, almost zen-like stillness of things like solitude and the sweeping splendor of the Finnish countryside.
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