Jennifer Davis’ outstanding creativity achieves a whimsical beauty in her illustrations. With the use of layers of paint which are sanded between applications, Davis manages to create ghostly images. This technique allows line and paint to be revealed through the layers to compose the finished artwork. Patternbank love the life and personality Davis is able to inject into her characters, feast you eyes on more of her work on her website.
Rob Sheridan is an American graphic designer, director, and photographer best known for his extensive work with the band Nine Inch Nails. Sheridan attended art school at New York’s Pratt Institute for one year before being hired at age 19 by Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor in 1999, on the merits of a Nine Inch Nails fansite he created during high school. See more at rob-sheridan.com
Australian artist Jill Lewis creates these dream-like pictorial moments on her canvas with layers of pattern and colour, transforming us to another world. Lewis’s primitive yet extraordinarily sophisticated notions of everyday life are like playful poetic tapestries featuring mythological animals and fanciful objects. A painterly and spontaneous mark-making technique of rich earthy hues and gelato colour bombs, emphasise the personal metaphors and private moments underlying her stories. You can see more of her fantastical cast of bazaar creatures and characters at libbyedwardsgallieries.com
Finnish-born illustrator Riikka Sormunen employs her characteristic detailed painting style to create these beautiful, pattern-rich illustrations. Her artwork features a strong textile element which involves heavily layered collage-style images that draw the eye into this intriguing world. Find more of Sormunen’s illustrations on her website.
We are finding these digital sculptures titled ‘Sixpack Colourlover’ by Stefan Künzler utterly mesmerising, he’s a 3D Designer, Graphic Designer and Artist from Zurich, Switzerland. The incredible detail, complexity and weirdness of these designs conjures up futuristic tribal masks from another dimension. Go check more of his mind bending work on his website.
Inspired by nature, organic forms and repetition, Eva Isaksen primarly works with thin papers, where she prints, draws, cuts up and mixes layers of beautiful delicate imagery on to her canvas. The result is these wonderful paintings and drawings that explore a love of colour, line, material, space and form. Isaksen likes to explore how art as a process is changing and growing just like the natural world that inspires her. Patternbank love the printed quality to her work and the hidden patterns that emerge on to the canvas. You can see more of her work at evaisaksen.com
Andreas Nicolas Fischer is a Berlin-based artist that works with data, sculpture and code. He works with the physical manifestation of digital processes and data through generative systems to create sculptures, videos, prints and installations. See more of this beautiful, detailed and textured work on his website.
Anne Siem’s paintings are beautifully haunting with their imagery of naive women with ghostly dresses. The love of early American Folk Art, European masters as well as vintage and modern photography inspire her work which has evolved over the years into some enchanting pieces. Siem’s moved from Berlin, Germany to Seattle in 1991 where her early works were on waxed found paper using pen, ink and acrylic paint. Later she has worked on panels where she can create a more precise quality of painting. Patternbank love all the hidden imagery that can be found within her paintings. Check out more of Siem’s wonderful work at annesiems.com and her current exhibition at wallyworkmangallery.com showing until 24th November 2012.
