>>Nimit Malavia<<

Esao Andrews combines a colorful palette with a Gothic sensibility. Some of his paintings are twists on traditional portraits from earlier epochs akin to the work of Nicola Samorì. Wildly dilapidated and foreboding houses are a recurring motif, and, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson‘s psychological horror stories, depict the inner, psychical falling apart, decay, distortion, and warping. Fairy tales and folklore, including Pinocchio and Thumbelina, loom in the forefront with menacing or perverted appeal. In some works, his vibrant style illustrates the bizarre, the obscene, and aberrations, contrasting atrocious or monstrous things such as a giant, bloated black spider with a symbol of sweetness, purity, and elevation such as a child or an angel. Some of his illustrations are cartoonish, charmingly retro, with a dark, whimsical sense of humor, while others are realistically rendered and Dali-esque, while yet others are macabre and lovelorn, bloody tale-telling depictions.

>>Kashima Echo<<

>>ジュウニコ/Juuniko<<

If anybody knows more about this artist, or if they have any alternate Websites, I would love to find out.

>>Jeremy Enecio<<

These beautiful images are from the book Alice, à travers le miroir, a French edition of Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There illustrated by Lost Fish (see my previous post on her).

These images are from Schön! Magazine, photographed by Diego Indraccolo and illustrated by Pok U Chan.

To quote Anagnorisis, Jeremy Hush‘s intricate, elaborate, wild yet delicate drawings, which convey an incredible sense of dark movement and dimension, are “heavy influenced by Arthur Rackham and other 19th-century illustrations….His spidery drawings are dark and mysterious, but, like Rackham’s drawings, evoke the fear, love, and awe one might have for nature and her power.” He often draws with ballpoint pens he finds in hotels around the world (Hush is prone to wanderlust), uses “traditional India ink and watercolor,” and “also experiments with a plethora of other media such as coffee, for example.”

Liza Corbett‘s beautiful watercolors and whispery, precise linework, which seem to have a kind of soft translucency, depicting maidens of yore and mythology, entangled with animals, nature, their own hair, are displaying alongside Jeremy Hush‘s breathtaking work at Loved to Death’s Articulated Gallery (’til the 29th of September).

Also be sure to check out her Etsy shop for original artwork and gorgeous art dolls!

>>Merve Morkoç<<