Cool Artists

Personal websites of artists of all varieties. I especially like pop surrealism.
Jump to: photographers | painters | mixed media artists | print makers | illustrators | comic artists | graphic design | dimensional art

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2D Art

Photographers

• Ryota Kajita / 梶田亮太 – Photographer
• Christopher Payne – architectural and industrial photography
• Xavier Portela – nighttime city photography (Brussels)
• Sinziana Velicescu – abstract architectural photos (Los Angeles)
• Ben Simon Rehn
• Paolo Pettigiani – infrared photography (Italy)
• Luke Shadbolt – wave photography (Australia)
• Benjamin Everett
• Brittany Wright (Wright Kitchen) – flat lay rainbow food photos
• Mikko Lagerstedt – beautiful night snow photography (Finland)
• Maarten Vromans (The Netherlands)
• Oghalé Alex – fashion photography
• Morgan Heim – wildlife photography
• Melissa Groo – conservation photography
• Claire Droppert (The Netherlands)
• Karen Jerzyk – astronauts in unlikely settings
• Ben Zank – surrealist portraits (New York)
• Maria Svarbova – swimming pool portraits
• Scott Kranz – mountain photos (Seattle)
• Brooke Shaden – fantastical portraits
• Laura Paresky Gould (Miami Color Theory) – abstract (Miami)
• Reuben Wu – landscape photography lit with drones
• Warren Keelan – textural wave photos
• Tobias Hägg (Airpixels) – drone photography (Sweden)
• Pixelated Streets – street art photography (New York)
• Floris van Breugel (Art in Nature) – nature photography
• Uli Westphal – ombre flatlay collections (Berlin)
• Bernhard Lang – aerial landscape and abstract photography
• Roland Kraemer (That Bloom) – abstract nature photography
• Edward Burtynsky – “nature transformed by industry”

Painters

• Brian Despain – robot art
• Graham Curran – ocean monsters
• Jeff Soto – colorful fantasy birds and robots (SoCal)
• Scott Musgrove – imagined animal paintings and sculptures
• Renee Hartig – contemporary landscape oil painting (Oregon)
• Nick Sheehy – macabre surrealist paintings of animals and bones
• Dragica Carlin – beautiful swirling colors
• Kai and Sunny – colorful abstract stripes
• Grant Pecoff – colorful friendly landscapes
• Miranda Meeks – eerie fantasy paintings
• Conrad Jon Godly – bold thickly painted mountainscapes
• Peter Ferguson – old-timey surrealist paintings of people with odd animals
• Tom Bagshaw – dark witchy women
• Susie Ghahremani (boygirlparty) – colorful cheerful animals
• Amy Sol – moody peaceful pastel-hued women in fantasy realms
• Frank Gonzales – bird and plant surrealist paintings (Arizona)
• KM Steere – botanical cats and creatures (Pacific Northwest)
• Scott Listfield – paintings of astronauts in dystopian futures
• Laura Bifano – geometric colorful landscapes (Canada)
• Reliah Szade – cyberpunkish sci-fi paintings of people
• Allie Oldfield – landscapes (London)
• Lindsey Carr – almost obscene botanicals (Scotland)
• Femke Hiemstra (Femtasia) – surrealist stories with an old-fashioned vibe
• Joao Ruas – unsettling detached people
• Syd Bee – luminous pink and blue women (Seattle)
• Shaun Tan – surrealist worlds peopled by imaginary creatures
• Shok-1 – x-ray paintings
• Matthew Grabelsky – humanistic animal families on the subway
• Sarah Joncas – beautiful women (Canada)
• Martin Wittfooth – decadent fantasias
• Travis Louie – old fashioned monster portraits
• Rebecca Chaperon – mystical floating crystals over dark seas (Canada)
• Mary Iverson – geometry superimposed on landscapes (Seattle)
• Teagan White – gouache and watercolor wildlife (PNW)
• Andy Kehoe – mystical, celestial fantasy lands (Pittsburgh)
• Christina Mrozik – dying creatures and flowers
• Esao Andrews – surrealist portraits (Los Angeles)
• Jason Limon – retro skeletons and wordplay
• Audrey Kawasaki – powerful women on wood
• Jess Franks – colorful abstracted landscapes
• Brandi Milne – fairy tale scenes
• Jeffrey Alan Love – mythical monsters and heroic scenes
• Angela Lane – landscapes (Germany)
• Bao Pham – floral portraits of women (Iowa)
• James Jean – people in colorful fantasy worlds
• Lois von Baarle (Loish) – emotive digital portraits of women

Mixed media artists

• Janelle Lile – paintings of women with nature ephemera (Washington)
• Kristen Meyer (Salvage Design) – photos of flatlay compositions made from natural elements (Connecticut)
• Chris Berens – soft surreal fantasy scenes (Amsterdam)
• Frank Moth – retro digital collage (Greece)

Print makers

• The Draculas
• Peter Mataya – abstract pattern monoprints
• Clare (Tiger Food Press) – block print artist (Oregon)
• Kit Vasey (Houndsaint) – medieval inspired demonic art
• Kelli MacConnell – linocut prints of landscapes and tree illustrations
• Christopher Lee (The Beast is Back) – fun screen prints (Los Angeles)
• Pam Wishbow (Seattle)

Illustrators

• Kevin Chan (Hey It’s Meu) – cute cat drawings
• Kelly Johnson – creepycute “wolfboi” illustrations
• Kim Slate – muted stylized animal illustrations (and sculptures)
• Samantha Mash – distorted animal and plant art (Portland)
• Damian J. McDonald – abstract mutant grayscale creatures (Oregon)
• Jared Tuttle – fine line art
• Deb JJ Lee – luscious colorful fantastical illustrations
• Anoosha Syed – fun colorful worlds and characters
• Taylor Price – tropical creatures (Los Angeles)
• Philip Giordano – geometric colorful characters
• Patrick Hruby – retro scandi-style nature illustrations
• Loris Lora – boldly colorful happy illustrations
• Ellen Surrey – mid-century inspired bright cute illustrations
• Nellie Le – adorable mini paintings of animals and kawaii food (Los Angeles)
• Lauren J Myers – mixed animal and botanical stylized art
• Lianne Pflug – adorable close scale floral, mushroom, and insect art
• Nicholas Slater – clean line flat illustrations
• Yoshi Yoshitani – colorful fantasy and fairy tale illustrations
• Nico Delort – scratchboard fantasy and landscape illustrations
• Ruben Ireland – dramatic warrior women
• Audre ‘Charamath’ Schutte – cool bestiary drawings
• Katie O’Neill – adorable fantasy scenes
• Alyssa Scott – botanical patterns
• Natalie Hall – illustration and tattoo art (Los Angeles)
• Yellena James – botanically inspired geometric art (Portland)
• Nick Kuchar – coastal scenes (Hawaii)
• Nico Salazar – tattoo style anime-inspired black and white girls
• Alex (Synthetic Animal) – skeletons
• Nicoletta Ceccoli – etheral girls (San Marino)
• Ella Bailey – cute bright pastel people and animals
• David DePasquale – animation and character design (SoCal)
• Nguyễn Thanh Nhàn (xnhan00) – delicate women paintings
• Candice Phang (Puffingmuffin) – exuberant fantasy figures (Singapore)
• Tran Nguyen – detailed drawings of women with animal and floral motifs (Georgia)
• Jasmine Floyd – neon psychedelic screenprinty style
• Owen Davey – stylized retro animal illustrations
• Sam Wolfe Connelly – conte black and white creepy scenes
• Jenna Barton (Dappermouth) – creepy dogs and wolves
• Eva Vilhelmiina Eskelinen (Canada)
• Meg Park – character design and illustration (SoCal)
• Marco Mazzoni – pink and blue flowers engulfing human figures
• Mike McCain – digital landscapes
• Rovina Cai – sweeping pencil illustrations
• Bo Feng Lin – tropical portraits of women (Germany)
• Joey Chou – colorful characters
• Caitlin Hackett – contemporary mythology
• Miranda Zimmerman (Faunwood) – imagined creatures
• Kamwei Fong – black and white fuzzy cats (Malaysia)
• Dan Funderburgh – patterned everything
• Britt Sabo – supernatural, monster, and folklore art
• Adam JK – handwriting focused
• Jess Phoenix – colorful floral patterns
• Pierrick Calvez
• Hollie Mengert – fun character designs
• Jemma Salume – geometric colorful designs

Comic artists

• Ted Naifeh
• Tessa Hulls
• Kate Wheeler
• Maria Capelle Frantz
• Ethan Aldridge
• Faith Erin Hicks (Canada)
• Tony Cliff (Canada)
• Jen Bartel
• Meredith McClaren
• Reimena Yee
• Lenora Yerkes
• Tomer Hanuka
• Kate Beaton

Other

• Peter Popken – sci-fi movie concept art
• Candace Rose Rardon – visual storyteller
• Andy Gilmore – graphic artist (New York)

Design

Lettering artists

• Kyle Letendre – lettering and illustration (Portland)
• Jessica Hische – flowing illustrated type (California)

Graphic designers

• Dan Shafer (Dandy Co) (Seattle)
• DKNG Studios – design and illustration (Los Angeles)
• Charlie Wagers (Pittsburgh)
• Steve Leard – book cover design (UK)
• Ryan Swierczek (Swierczek Design Co) – retro toned digital collage posters

Dimensional Art

Ceramists

• Victoria Buchler
• Beth Cavener – incredible emotive rabbits and other animals
• Erika Sanada – cute wounded dogs and birds in blue and pink

Sculptors

• John Voss – kinetic and solid animal sculptures (France)
• Aaron Li-Hill – dynamic installations (New York)
• Ellen Jewett – natural history surrealist sculpture

Muralists

• Luise Ono – large scale flower murals
• Steve Martinez – bird and animal murals and illustrations
• Adele Renault – richly colored pigeon feather murals
• Gemma O’Brien – large text installations
• DALeast – animal murals made of ribbons
• Ink Dwell – scientific nature murals
• Brendan Monroe (Brendan the Blob) – landscapes made of sinuous black and white lines
• D*Face
• Niki Zarrabi – melting flowers
• Emily Ding – animals and people
• Michael Reeder – stylized portraits blending bold color, texture, and detailed skulls and hands (Dallas)
• PichiAvo – graffiti + classical sculpture
• Ricky Watts – swirling ribbons of color (NorCal)
• Huh.art – graffiti art and commentary
• Nuno Alecrim – typographic poster and mural artist
• D’outros Tipos – typographic muralist (Portugal)

Textile artists

• Erin Barrett (Sunwoven Studio) – woven wall hangings
• Lindsey Thomas – needle felt characters (London)
• Humayrah Bint Altaf (The Olde Sewing Room) – dimensional insect embroidery
• Han Cao – embroidered antique photographs (Dallas)

Paper artists

• Grace D. Chin – affirmative paper floral wreaths (Berlin)
• Amy Genser – abstract wall sculptures constructed from rolled paper
• Kate Alarcón (The Cobra Lily) – paper floral arrangements
• Tiffanie Turner (Papel SF) – oversized paper flowers (Bay Area)

Other

• Christopher Marley – mandalas and compositions made from insects and other specimens
• Ememem – “flacking” filling potholes with tiled designs (France)
• Nick Terrell – woodworking