Michael Dickter   Fleeting Moments of the Natural World inspiration

As paint drips down the canvas we are reminded of the urgency in time to record our thoughts and visions of the world around us. These fleeting moments when beauty surprises and astounds us are shared in Dickter’s desire to create and record the natural world. Dickter captures this with exquisiteness in marks, colour and paint, images of birds and flowers that appear frozen for us to enjoy. You can see more of these fleeting moments at michaeldickter.com

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Magical Fractal Wonderland   C 91 inspiration

More amazing fractals by the talented Silvia C. from Italy, rather than focus on her floral designs, as we did here – we focus on her more abstract creations that look like incredible macro photographs of jewels, fungi and plants from a magical wonderland. This is Fractalism taken to the next level – see more of her work on Deviant Art.

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Madame Peripetie   Fashion, Sculpture and the Human Body inspiration

Patternbank love Madame Peripetie’s surreal interpretations of the human body. Through high-fashion, sculpture, photography and collage Peripetie explores the boundaries between these disciplines experimenting with colour, fabric, texture and patterns. Her inspirations include surrealism, dadadism, the new wave era of the 80′s, British post punk scene and the avant-garde theatre of Robert Wilson. Check out more of her work at madameperipetie.com and on behance.net

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Jonathan McCree   Ever Changing Landscapes inspiration

Jonathan McCree’s landscape paintings take us on an uncharted journey where he plays with scale, colour and perspective. Canvases are torn and cut up then re-assembled so that traditional devices such as foreground, middle and distance become redundant creating a picture with many interesting levels. McCree studied at the University of Sussex and has exhibited world-wide including Art Miami and Palm Beach Art Fair. You can see more of his work at jonathanmccree.com

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Jonathan McCree   Ever Changing Landscapes inspiration

Jose Lerma   Mixed Media knows No Bounds inspiration

José Lerma creates a mixture of paintings and intricate installations combining non-traditional materials from reflective fabrics, commercial carpet, thickly applied paint and biro pen. In this he makes reference to his own personal history and academic knowledge of social history, law and art. Some of these images feature Baroque style portraits of historical, famous French Bankers from 18th Century sporting over-exaggerrated sketchy, doodle wigs with distorted and blank faces. The scale of the installation pieces has great effect where the viewer can walk over and examine at detail. Lerma says, ” I like the thought of people walking over my ideas, convoluted and preliminary as they often are, and examining and stepping over an intimate space while simultaneously feeling small.” You can see more of is highly spell bounding work at joselerma.com  and on flickr

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Jose Lerma   Mixed Media knows No Bounds inspiration

Anne Sofie Melgaard   Tropical Garden Displays inspiration

Anne Sofie Melgaard manages to convey such wonderful texture and colour-use in her paintings of tropical gardens. Foliage appears in relief next to vividly painted tropical flowers that stand proud, all fighting to be noticed. The vases and bowls the plants jostle in are just as important in their decoration with fun geometric patterns, that you almost want to go and create your own brightly coloured garden! Melgaard is exhibiting at Bie & Vadstrup Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark in March 2013 and you can see more of her magical work at annesofiemeldgaard.com.

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Cristian Boian   Complex Fractal inspiration

Cristian Boian is a Romanian Graphic Designer who loves experimenting with new technology to create these complex group of artworks titled “Attempts”. Beautiful choice of subdued colour palette make these fractal wonders irresistible. We did a post on Cristian early last year here, check out his Behance page for more of his incredible work.

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Cristian Boian   Complex Fractal inspiration

Bernhard Willhelm   Avant Garde inspiration

Art posing as fashion, or fashion posing as art? Bernard Willhelm’s S/S ’13 collection defies all the conventional rules of fashion. Combining clashing pattern and texture with obscure proportion and volume this collection, like art draws you in and forces you to have an opinion. Love it or hate it, you can’t help but be mesmerized. Notching up ten years in the business this year, Willhelm’s enthusiasm and creativity know no bounds, to see more collections, news and videos visit his website. Prepare to be shocked and inspired!

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Bernhard Willhelm   Avant Garde inspiration

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