These amazing Fractal Florals are created by Silvia C. from Italy. She has developed a unique technique to create such depth, detail and complexity in these images. She describes herself as a Fractalist and lists the software used to create these masterpieces on her Deviant Art page where she goes by the name of C-91.
Ukranian illustrator Irena Zablotzka attributes much of her inspiration to childhood memories of psychedelic, soviet cartoons, ‘The Music Box’ and ‘The Mystery of the Third Planet’. Zablotzka felt a need to express her emotions through drawing and describes her work as ‘elegant horror’. Patternbank loves her bold use of colour and her surreal, dreamlike depictions of sinister creatures. Take a peek at her Flickr pages.
These beautiful watercolour illustrations are by award winning watercolour artist and illustrator Daniel Mackie, who won “Best in Book” in the Creative Review Ilustration Annual 2011. The collection of art cards and prints started out with a loose theme of “animals in their natural habitat”, and ended up as the habitat being in the animal. You can go and meet Daniel if you’re around Greenwich Market in South East London on Saturday’s and Sunday’s. You can buy cards and prints tom his online shop here.
Ukrainian-American multi skilled artist Maya Hayuk has caught Patternbank’s eye this week . Bold colour and striking pattern are characteristic in her paintings, prints, designs, drawings and photography. Collaborating with other artists, Hayuk has produced large scale artworks in the form of murals, scattered globally from the USA to China. With film and music also featuring in her extensive portfolio, there’s a kaleidoscope of Hayuk’s creativity to be discovered online.
Wonderful mixed-media collage here by Austin, Texas based artist Xochi Solis. In addition to her studio practice, she is also the Director of Events and Public Programming at the Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin. We love the way she builds up the different elements of mixed-media, one on top of each other to resemble some sort of layered molecular structure. Find more of her captivating work on her website.
San Francisco based artist Jenny Odell facinates and inspires with her collection of satallite view art. With a MFA in design from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA in English Literature, Odell has featured work in the Google Headquaters and Les Recontres D’Arles in France, and has appeared in numerous magazines and publications. ‘In all of these prints, I collect things that I’ve cut out from Google Satellite View,-parking lots, silos, landfills, waste ponds. The view from a satellite is not a human one, nor is it one we were ever really meant to see. But it is precisely from this inhuman point of view that we are able to read our own humanity, in all of its tiny, repetitive marks upon the face of the earth. From this view, the lines that make up basketball courts and the scattered blue rectangles of swimming pools become like hieroglyphs that say: people were here’. Feast your eyes on more from her portfolio on her website.
We love these paintings by Michelle Armas, they’re so free, abstract and seemingly effortless with the most beautiful colour palettes. Until a few years ago her job was corporate branding in a busy New York studio, she started painting to battle the stress and now makes a living out of it, good on you Michelle. Check out more of her excuisite work on her website.
Patternbank love Amelie Petit Moreau’s series of engravings and linocuts. Her work is varied but the underlying theme of monochromatic stripes, geometric patterns and experiments with scanning and photography is a feast for the eyes. In the Xero Lino series Moreau prints linocuts on bamboo paper and then experiments with scanning to create some great effects. You can see more of her work at ameliepetitmoreau.com
