Anna Poltorykhina is a Russian 2D artist and illustrator whose practice combines digital and traditional image-making, with a strong focus on landscape studies and painterly atmosphere. Her public portfolio materials describe her simply as an artist working across both media, and recent visible works point to plein-air-inspired scene building and compact environmental compositions.

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Recent artworks traces emphasize landscape painting, atmospheric studies, and small-scale compositions that push her outside her comfort zone while strengthening environmental storytelling. A biennial listing also connects her work to both woodcut and digital painting, suggesting range beyond straightforward illustration into printmaking and more formal art contexts.

Think Very Little is a premier print and publication studio established in 2016.

Curated by Valeria Teteriuk, it showcases poetic photography, moody visuals, and contemplative narratives from global artists (Kensaku Kakimoto, Kasia Traveltheworld). Themes explore self-reflection (“eyes on the horizon, back to the mirror”), presence (“guest who is already here”), and absence (“not everything unseen is absent”).

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Jean-Jacques Balzac is the pseudonym of a Parisian architect known for “Wrong Architecture Illustrations”—AI-generated surreal structures that collapse infrastructure into organic forms.

Balzac’s generative art features eroded walls, root-like cables, living buildings, and vacation homes (“Maison des vacances,” “Entrance”). His distorted modernism reimagines bridges, dams, and towers as symbiotic entities.

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Sofia Karnukaeva is a Barcelona-based architect and ceramic artist who graduated from Moscow Institute of Architecture (MARKHI) and studied contemporary art at Joseph Backstein ICA Moscow.

Karnukaeva’s tactile vessel-sculptures explore transformation—how external conditions birth new forms. Her organic, zoomorphic ceramics evoke nests, beehives, caves, and bodily shapes, translating abstract intuition into sensory reality.

“Mirror 01.01 ‘Route'” (D 40 x W 15 x H 40 cm) exemplifies her ecological approach. Exhibitions include Collectible Design Fair (Brussels, 2025, NM Gallery) and Dart Haus.

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Larisa Bulibasa is a Romanian conceptual interior designer based in Berlin.

Bulibasa creates immersive, narrative spaces through “gallery, imagined” series—pink gentle invasions, red without permission, blue existential crises. Her minimalist yet provocative designs reimagine galleries, gyms, and halls as emotional environments (“spaces that move you before you move,” “not everything is built to impress”). Influenced by tropical dance, Valentino glamour, and existential architecture, she uses color psychology and spatial poetry.

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Richard Nadler is a Munich-based digital and embroidered fine artist specializing in architectural surrealism.

Nadler’s digital compositions reimagine infrastructure as human habitat—dams as homes (“Would you live inside a dam?”), bridges as dwelling places (“Bridge No. 1”), and interiors with textured depth. His work explores isolation, modern connectivity, and existential infrastructure through symmetrical forms and poetic captions.

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Ivana Belianska is a digital pixel artist who creates nostalgic, detail-rich illustrations blending retro gaming aesthetics with contemporary storytelling.

Her work features pixel self-portraits, Spirited Away homages, post-apocalyptic Nintendo 64 scenes, and custom pixel portraits. Belianska holds a master’s in art and invests 10+ hours per piece, emphasizing tiny details and nostalgia.

She builds collaborative collections (free pixel portraits) and shares process insights.

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Elliot Wair (born 2003) is a South East England-based contemporary painter working in acrylic on panel.

Wair’s surrealism portrays complex emotional ideas through otherworldly concepts—floating figures, crab-roofed houses, dissolving forms, and shadow-collecting scenes (“Collecting My Shadow Before I Have Finished With It,” “I’m Scared Of Dissolving Into You”).

He maintains childish freedom amid soft creepiness, using poetic titles (“The yellow sky looks guilty today,” “The Courtyard of Sleepy Dread”) to provoke interpretation.

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Otto is a 22-year-old self-taught French painter who works in Paris and has exhibited at Very Art Gallery.

His dark, minimalist expressionism features elongated ballerinas, contorted figures, and emotional abstraction on paper using ink, charcoal, and paint. Recurring motifs include addiction, memory, contrast, and choice (“No choice,” “Addiction,” “Souviens toi”), blending pop art layering with classical dance inspiration.

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Perry Lam is a Hong Kong-based architect, vaporwave visual artist, and AI image creator.

Lam blends architectural photography (Marina Bay Sands, Tokyo skyscrapers) with vaporwave edits, dreamstate compositions, and AI-generated art (“Crystal Cove,” “Lucid State,” “Quiet Happiness,” “Lucid Land”). His aesthetic fuses neon futurism, nostalgic grids, and urban melancholy.

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An Improbable Future is the speculative design project of a New York-based industrial designer who uses text-to-image AI (primarily Midjourney) to envision retro-futuristic vehicles, gadgets, and architecture.

The work presents curated relics from an alternate timeline—80s-inspired consoles, brutalist cars, modular interfaces—blending nostalgic familiarity (Casio, Nokia) with alien futurism. Themes explore industrial design evolution, transportation archetypes, and AI’s role in visual language.

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SERIFA is the collaborative studio of Nastassja Abel and Christian Otto, founded in 2021 south of Munich. Originally editorial designers specializing in book covers, they now produce daily AI-assisted visual art.

SERIFA’s philosophy generates ambiguous, abstract images blending human creativity with AI unpredictability. Their style features distorted portraits, fluid organic shapes, dark/neon interplay, and signature grain texture. Themes explore anonymity, darkness, spiritual essence, and imperfection. Featured in Vogue and Unity Magazine, they sell prints via their online shop. Influences span fashion, Japanese culture, and editorial typography.

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Daniel Vega, known as THE CODEX NOIRMATIC, is a Chilean illustrator and worldbuilder specializing in surreal, gothic fantasy.

Vega creates the TERRA HYPNAGOGICA universe—a nightmarish, symmetrical realm of grotesque entities, many-eyed beasts, decaying landscapes, and otherworldly architecture. His bold-outlined, limited-palette illustrations evoke Lovecraftian horror with metallic silver, bone textures, and black voids.

Recent works include “Grand Beast Quar’voldok” and symmetrical horrors blending dream messages from the deep with scifi/fantasy elements. He shares 162+ designs for potential prints or NFTs.

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Maya Prokhorova is the founder of Mayaprodesign, an authorial industrial design studio operating from Paris. A graduate of Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (Saint Petersburg), she has won 9 Red Dot Awards, iF Design Awards, and CES Innovation Honors.

Prokhorova designs “objects for future functions” through experimental prototypes like the TA series (TA132, TA131, TA129, TA124). Her technical aesthetics prioritize emotional presence over immediate utility, creating visual worlds that expand industrial design. Process involves hand-sketching, rapid prototyping, and iterative refinement. Collections feature audio equipment concepts (TA108), modular objects, and non-production experiments.

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Vítor Esteves is a Portuguese photographer specializing in aerial and travel photography.

Esteves captures dramatic landscapes, urban aerials, and architectural geometry with a high-contrast, cinematic aesthetic. His work emphasizes Madeira’s rugged cliffs (“Island of Eternal Spring”), Hong Kong’s neon density, and Croatia’s heart-shaped islands. He documents 9-5 corporate life alongside 5-9 passion projects, blending professional drone footage with personal travel captures. Recent reels showcase Hong Kong footage and urban exploration.

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Soonbomb (순범) is a Seoul-based illustrator and tattoo artist renowned for his playful, emotionally expressive cat illustrations.

His signature black cat character appears in doodle-style tattoos, minimalist line art, and character-driven designs that blend cute whimsy with subtle narrative depth (“the cat pierced by the moon,” “I will be back”). Soonbomb works in Hongdae tattoo studios, offering mini tattoos and custom designs via email booking. He shares available designs (e.g., sleepy tigers, meowing cats) and process reels using Procreate.

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Chema Méndez is a Spanish digital collage artist based in the Canary Islands who has created mixed digital media works since 2009.

His practice merges classical paintings (public domain) with modern photography, 3D renders, AI, and personal sketches to form surreal, layered compositions. Méndez’s aesthetic blends M.C. Escher’s precision, René Magritte’s surrealism, Miles Johnston’s dreamlike atmospheres, and Eduardo Recife’s textured nostalgia.

Recent collections like Singularity explore variations within a single work (1/1 originals + gifted fragments), while First Impressions, Vanitas, and Principia tackle perception, memory, and timeless human experience. In 2024, he shifted from perfectionist weeks-long pieces to daily creation, embracing fluidity and experimentation.

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Sıla Şehrazat Yücel is an Istanbul-based artist who blends her background in landscape architecture (Istanbul University, 2010) and master’s degree in design with experience as art director in cinema and theater. Her practice spans digital painting, AI-generated art, jewelry, and decorative objects.

Yücel’s signature aesthetic is surreal, evocative, and asymmetrical, featuring dreamlike figures in olive groves, mirrored distortions, and vibrant, uncanny compositions. She explores reality-bending, wonder-seeking themes through deep thinker narratives. Recent works include equine series (“eye-catching equines”) and surreal portraits sold via ArtStar.com.

Alongside painting, she handcrafts jewelry and objects as “design tools to explore new forms beyond the screen”. Exhibitions include Dart Haus (Buenos Aires).

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Tim Tadder is a self-taught advertising photographer, director, and conceptual artist based in Los Angeles.

Tadder’s early exposure came from his father’s darkrooms; he later became renowned for high-concept series like “Water Wigs” (high-speed captures of exploding water balloons on bald heads). His commercial work serves Nike, Amazon, and Getty Images, blending dynamic lighting, vivid colors, and surreal props (liquids, powders, smoke).

Recent 365 AI Image project (ongoing since 2025) explores generative tools while maintaining his signature bold, provocative style. Fine art series address social themes: “United States of Purple” (2018) seeks unity amid division; “Black is a Color” (2020) challenges racial stereotypes using marbled paint on bald heads.

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Kim Collister is a mixed media artist based in Conway, Arkansas, creating vibrant, textural journals, collages, and altered books that celebrate experimentation with paper, paint, and found objects.

Collister’s aesthetic is whimsical yet layered, featuring gessoed substrates, vintage brushes, reflective paints, and stenciled patterns. Recent series explore color theory (“The Untruth of Blue”), memory challenges (Artful Memories), and floral symbolism (forget-me-nots, blue eyeshadow).

She embraces collage techniques, scribbled faces, and pop art elements, often sharing step-by-step processes like gessoing, background painting, and pencil scribbles. Her journals blend circus whimsy (“Life is A Circus”) with contemplative abstraction.

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Fabian Oberhammer (previously featured), known as The Dizzy Viper, is an Italian digital artist born in 1997 in Merano, South Tyrol. Since February 2017, he has created a daily digital artwork—over 3,000 pieces—without missing a single day, building a monumental “Everydays” project.

Oberhammer specializes in hyper-realistic 3D renders of supercars, luxury vehicles, and abandoned automotive scenes using Cinema 4D and Octane Render. His signature aesthetic merges automotive futurism with surreal, liminal atmospheres—think fog-shrouded racetracks, interstellar supercars, and crashed hypercars in desolate wastelands.

Recent collaborations include Automobili Estrema (official renderings) and viral series like Liminal Skies, Deep Talk, Fog Runner, and Interplanetary Condivision.

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Monastery Jewellery is a handmade jewelry brand created by Ashleigh McCulloch, operating from studios in Amsterdam and Johannesburg. The pieces fuse ancient, mythic forms with punk edge—heavy, raw, and deliberately austere.

McCulloch crafts heirloom-quality items using lost-wax casting and traditional metalsmithing in sterling silver, gold, and bronze. Each piece is unique, designed to “speak loudly in the quiet” through weight, strange shapes, and audible clank. Drawing from asceticism and hermeticism, her work celebrates discipline and devotion amid modern chaos.

Collections feature signet rings (e.g., Roman-inspired with jade), vestiges necklaces (Victorian keys), and statement cuffs—all handmade per order (up to 4 weeks) with recycled metals.

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Christian Miller (aka Xtian Miller) is a Detroit-based graphic designer and visual artist renowned for his experimental typographic posters that fuse Swiss modernism with Japanese minimalism.

Miller’s signature kinetic typography creates optical tension through distorted, layered letterforms that pulse with rhythm and motion. His ongoing NAZARUNE project explores Christian theology through bold, wall-ready graphics that merge sacred symbolism with modernist principles.

Recent collaborations include comprehensive album packaging (vinyl/CD artwork) and visual extensions for musicians. He also produces typographic chaos studies and conceptual logos that push perception.

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Justin Parpan is a San Diego-born writer, producer, animator, and visual development artist. A CalArts graduate (2006), he is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at USC Cinematic Arts and Creative Director at Parpan Creative (co-founded with brother Josh Parpan).

Parpan has 15+ years in animation, art directing Disney TV series like Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2014), background designing on Mickey Mouse Shorts (5 Emmys), Gravity Falls, DuckTales, and Big Hero 6. Recent credits include Victor and Valentino (Cartoon Network) and developing Scarecrow Joe (Nickelodeon/Warner Bros.). He authored the children’s book Gwango’s Lonesome Trail and publishes process essays on Substack.

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His personal work explores dreamlike, electric landscapes and small-town nostalgia through mixed media (paint, ink, digital). Series like “Quiet Electric Landscape” and pieces such as “Red House at Night” (recurring dream) or “Overpass at dusk” evoke isolation, memory, and twilight melancholy with loose textures and atmospheric light. He emphasizes texture, looseness, and knowing “when to stop”.

Luca Ponsato is an Italian generative digital artist, poet, and NFT creator. He is represented by Hilda Broom Management as Director of Artist Relations and has released multiple NFT collections on platforms like Raster.art (25 editions), Exchange.art, and Objkt.

Ponsato’s signature aesthetic is surreal, uncanny, and emotionally raw, featuring metallic figures, distorted anatomy, and cold, introspective compositions that evoke isolation, existential struggle, and the fragmented self. Works like “The Way I See Myself” (Narcissus-inspired), “Does Anyone See My Suffering,” and “And yet the sun still rises” pair stark digital renders with poetic captions exploring pain, pride, and fragile hope.

He leverages AI tools (likely Midjourney/Stable Diffusion) combined with post-processing to create his signature metallic sheen and uncanny realism, positioning himself at the intersection of technology and human emotion.

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