“I love to mindlessly flip through pages and then tear out any page that I like or that speaks to me in some way,” she relayed in an interview with society6’s blog. According to Hoeckel, while her earlier work relied mainly on imagery from National Geographic, she now tries to find rarer publications, looking out for an image that speaks to her. This process is mostly spontaneous.

“The next step is cutting out specific bits from those pages and then I scan them,” says Hoeckel., adding that while in the past she used to do everything analog, she now works on digitizing her materials. “But basically I am extremely intuitive and so the whole process is informed by my subconscious,” she notes. “That includes knowing when a work is complete. It’s 100% based on feeling.”

Her intuitive approach to art making seems to be working for her. In the the past 5 years or so, her work has been exhibited worldwide and published in top tier magazines. Her clients include brands like Rookie, Domino, and The New York Times. But you can also follow her work on Instagram:

The post Translating the Subconscious Into a Work of Art: Meet Beth Hoeckel appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Known for her digital collages, her work is made of geometric shapes arranged in colorful patterns. But according to Kövecses, what now has become her signature style, took some time and experimentation to develop.

“It took me quite a while to learn how to distinguish myself as an artist and my other self as an illustrator,” she told Papirmass. “Accepting the fact that as an illustrator I usually have to follow instructions I still find it hard to cope with tweaking my artwork many times before coming up with a final illustration.”

“I often scribble some vague sketches into my phone or notebooks that lay around the house and then get back to them later to turn them into final artworks,” she explained the creative process that takes place behind the scenes. “When working I often surround myself with books and albums on art, plants, children’s novels, landscapes or food that I spread out on the floor like a live mood board,” she adds.

Based in a small seaside village on the island of Cyprus, her lifestyle fits nicely with her chosen subjects and themes (or vice versa). Committed to the art slow living, Kövecses’ inspiration comes from life on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and being a mother of three small kids. “I spend the morning drawing or working on illustration projects and drinking way too much tea,” she says.

Enter her wonderfully colorful worlds.

The post Anna Kövecses’ Collage Art is All Sunshine and Rainbows appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Indeed, judging by her playful portfolio there seems to be a lot of drawing, cutting, and pasting going around. There’s also a lot of color (mainly pink). According to Blythman, her process includes covering big sheets of watercolor paper in a variety of colors, with the added copper or gold leaf. Blythman then cuts the sheets up and rearranges them, employing paper collage techniques.

“I’m drawn to color because it just makes me so happy, it never fails to lift my mood,” she says. So much so, in fact, that her choice of color dictates her art piece rather than the other way around. “When I’m creating new work I decide on a color palette first,” she stressed. “Always. At present, I can’t get away from neon pink and peach.”

With almost 70k fans on Instagram and clients that include anything from start-up businesses to high profile international brands, her creative recipe seems to have worked. You’d want to follow her ins and outs.

The post Chin Up! Laura Blythman’s Art Will Lift Your Spirits appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Also known as Max-o-matic, Tuja’s collage art has been exhibited far and wide, in cities like Barcelona, London, Madrid, New York, and Tokyo. He also collaborates regularly with brands, with selected clients including Nike, Spotify, and Universal Pictures.

“Organizing chaos is the main task of any collage artists,” says the Barcelona-based collage artist. “From millions of possible images (a universe of chaos), we decide to use only a few and combine them in a particular way to make our discourse visible through them. We are editors of reality and builders of new worlds. We are twisting the world we know to make a new one come to life.”

But sometimes the chaos becomes overwhelming, in which case, Tuja tries to find order within it. “I love to work with limits,” he says. “Most of the time I invent secret (and stupid) rules of production to create my collages. Collages created with 3 pieces and two main colors; collages created with the letters B-D of an encyclopedia and a skate magazine… these are some rules that I impose on myself to create collage series.”

According to Tuja, limits are boosters of creativity. See for yourself.

The post The Restless Art of Max-o-matic appeared first on MobiSpirit.

As his work collapses inside itself, the viewer is invited to fall down the rabbit hole, following Eckman-Lawn’s lead. So far, his work has appeared in comic books, on album covers, book covers, T-shirts, music videos, newspapers, and posters; as well as amassing some 70k followers on Instagram, a noteworthy achievement to any artist.

But when it comes to the creative process itself, Eckman-Lawn mostly relies on his intuition. “Sometimes I have a clear idea in my head,” he told Beautiful Bizarre, adding that in such case it’s just a matter of finding the right images, “until it looks right.” According to him, “that can be really painstaking but occasionally it all just comes together cleanly.”

“I do feel very lucky that I get to make art for a living, and on days where it feels hard, I like to remind myself how much I’d rather do this than anything else,” he notes. Take a look at some of his original creations in the gallery below.

The post The Surreal Collage Art of Alex Eckman-Lawn appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Interested in the manipulation of tone, line, and shape, his collage process oscillates between quick improvisational moves and carefully planned revisions. Inspired by graffiti and urban decay, he also experiments with his source material, using tools such as charcoal and printmaking, instead of found paper cut out of books and magazines.

“I developed a process to fix the charcoal to paper to ensure its reliability as a medium for collage,” explained Voelker in a piece published on Artsy Shark. “The drawings are cut and arranged, layer after layer until a finished work emerges.”

As such, his collages have a distinct, rather somber, quality to them. According to him, his work involves an improvisational process of placing the cut pieces, then arranging and rearranging them until a new image is formed. “I rarely have a preconceived idea of what to make,” he says. “Rather, I let the pieces show me how they want to be arranged.”

Below you’ll find some of his more striking pieces.

The post This Collage Artist is Inspired by Urban Decay appeared first on MobiSpirit.

But her distinct style took some trial and error to develop. “In the beginning, I didn’t know what I really wanted to do,” admitted Pallarés in an interview with Talenthouse. “So, most of the works that I did at that time were clumsy compositions mixing photo and oil painting.”

But it all came together after coming across Dadaism and Surrealism. “I found Dadaism and Surrealism when I was studying graphic design at the university and somehow that changed my life,” reflected Pallarés. “I was blown away by how Dada artists used the composition, the typography, and the color. It just matched perfectly my way to understand the aesthetic of design and I suddenly found the answer for many questions about the meaning of contemporary art.”

While it is Pallarés’ portraits were first to catch our attention, she also experiments with more conceptual collage making, which tends to revolve around subjects that she finds important such as the passing of time and the unconscious. All very Dadaesque if you ask us…

The post Helena Pallarés’ Portraits are Bold and Graphic appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I cut out images, categorize them and then eventually piece them together like a complex paper jigsaw,” writes McCann on her website. She notes that a common theme throughout her work is the female face, which often acts as a reflection of the natural and sometimes magical world. Her female characters are often surrounded by birds, fish, and butterflies or submerged in a dense wallpaper pattern, which according to McCann either represents her prison or her liberation.

Like most creative souls, McCann’s artistic calling was hard to ignore early on. After growing up painting, drawing, cutting, and anything in between, she went on to study fashion in England. But after moving to the US with her family she returned to painting. “I started painting again and taking art classes,” she told Jung Katz. “I became fascinated with collage and eventually gave up the paintbrush and took up the scissors.”

Years later, and she hasn’t let go of her pair of scissors, arranging her papercut collections in careful compositions. See some of her work in the gallery below, and follow her Instagram page for more.

The post Katie McCann’s Whimsical Collage Art appeared first on MobiSpirit.

As such, it requires much time and patience, assembling the pieces together until a collage begins to take shape. With attention to beauty and to the harmony of composition, her works allow for an optimistic understanding of a world in which different shapes and forms come together as one.

Intertwining different film and TV genres, from vintage Hollywood to 1970s sci-fi, B-movies, and TV trash, Rivans’ work is in a constant dialogue with cultures of the past, reinventing existing film plots and narratives while spinning bizarre and dreamlike tales. The result is a sort of hybrid between Surrealism and Pop-Art—a reflection of Rivans’ sources of inspiration and natural inclination to the quirky and the unusual.

Her creations range in sizes, from large-scale originals to smaller, limited edition prints. Each is the product of months of careful deliberations and decisions—all aimed at creating that delicate balance of composition.

The post Maria Rivans’ Collage Art is Homage to Old Hollywood Glamour appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Handcrafting each work from start to finish, the result is highly textured and intricately detailed art pieces and collages that can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to complete. “I like to spend time reminiscing on the past while flipping through the pages of decades forgotten magazines, intently searching for the perfect shape, color, or texture within a periodical’s pages to add to my archive of collage elements,” writes Geiman on his website, reflecting on his creative process.

“I decided on the medium of collage because I didn’t have money to buy ‘proper’ supplies like fancy brushes or even canvas when I first started out,” he explains. “The paper I used then and still use today comes from abandoned spaces – old farmhouses, burned down buildings, abandoned gas stations, and the like.”

Multilayered and rich in narrative, his artwork weaves tales of foregone eras and untamed wilderness – landscapes, scenery, and characters that are inspired by the world he grew up in. “I grew up on a farm, caught crickets and bailed hay, painted with mud, dug up civil war relics, listened to midnight mockingbirds,” writes Geiman poetically. “These are the ingredients of life that have stuck with me and have built the foundation for the artwork I set forth into the world.” 

Below are some highlights from his Instagram page.

The post These Collages Were Assembled Using Reclaimed Materials appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I love to mindlessly flip through pages and then tear out any page that I like or that speaks to me in some way,” she relayed in an interview with society6’s blog. According to Hoeckel, while her earlier work relied mainly on imagery from National Geographic, she now tries to find rarer publications, looking out for an image that speaks to her. This process is mostly spontaneous.

“The next step is cutting out specific bits from those pages and then I scan them,” says Hoeckel., adding that while in the past she used to do everything analog, she now works on digitizing her materials. “But basically I am extremely intuitive and so the whole process is informed by my subconscious,” she notes. “That includes knowing when a work is complete. It’s 100% based on feeling.”

Her intuitive approach to art making seems to be working for her. In the the past 5 years or so, her work has been exhibited worldwide and published in top tier magazines. Her clients include brands like Rookie, Domino, and The New York Times. But you can also follow her work on Instagram:

The post Translating the Subconscious Into a Work of Art: Meet Beth Hoeckel appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Known for her digital collages, her work is made of geometric shapes arranged in colorful patterns. But according to Kövecses, what now has become her signature style, took some time and experimentation to develop.

“It took me quite a while to learn how to distinguish myself as an artist and my other self as an illustrator,” she told Papirmass. “Accepting the fact that as an illustrator I usually have to follow instructions I still find it hard to cope with tweaking my artwork many times before coming up with a final illustration.”

“I often scribble some vague sketches into my phone or notebooks that lay around the house and then get back to them later to turn them into final artworks,” she explained the creative process that takes place behind the scenes. “When working I often surround myself with books and albums on art, plants, children’s novels, landscapes or food that I spread out on the floor like a live mood board,” she adds.

Based in a small seaside village on the island of Cyprus, her lifestyle fits nicely with her chosen subjects and themes (or vice versa). Committed to the art slow living, Kövecses’ inspiration comes from life on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and being a mother of three small kids. “I spend the morning drawing or working on illustration projects and drinking way too much tea,” she says.

Enter her wonderfully colorful worlds.

The post Anna Kövecses’ Collage Art is All Sunshine and Rainbows appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Indeed, judging by her playful portfolio there seems to be a lot of drawing, cutting, and pasting going around. There’s also a lot of color (mainly pink). According to Blythman, her process includes covering big sheets of watercolor paper in a variety of colors, with the added copper or gold leaf. Blythman then cuts the sheets up and rearranges them, employing paper collage techniques.

“I’m drawn to color because it just makes me so happy, it never fails to lift my mood,” she says. So much so, in fact, that her choice of color dictates her art piece rather than the other way around. “When I’m creating new work I decide on a color palette first,” she stressed. “Always. At present, I can’t get away from neon pink and peach.”

With almost 70k fans on Instagram and clients that include anything from start-up businesses to high profile international brands, her creative recipe seems to have worked. You’d want to follow her ins and outs.

The post Chin Up! Laura Blythman’s Art Will Lift Your Spirits appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Also known as Max-o-matic, Tuja’s collage art has been exhibited far and wide, in cities like Barcelona, London, Madrid, New York, and Tokyo. He also collaborates regularly with brands, with selected clients including Nike, Spotify, and Universal Pictures.

“Organizing chaos is the main task of any collage artists,” says the Barcelona-based collage artist. “From millions of possible images (a universe of chaos), we decide to use only a few and combine them in a particular way to make our discourse visible through them. We are editors of reality and builders of new worlds. We are twisting the world we know to make a new one come to life.”

But sometimes the chaos becomes overwhelming, in which case, Tuja tries to find order within it. “I love to work with limits,” he says. “Most of the time I invent secret (and stupid) rules of production to create my collages. Collages created with 3 pieces and two main colors; collages created with the letters B-D of an encyclopedia and a skate magazine… these are some rules that I impose on myself to create collage series.”

According to Tuja, limits are boosters of creativity. See for yourself.

The post The Restless Art of Max-o-matic appeared first on MobiSpirit.

As his work collapses inside itself, the viewer is invited to fall down the rabbit hole, following Eckman-Lawn’s lead. So far, his work has appeared in comic books, on album covers, book covers, T-shirts, music videos, newspapers, and posters; as well as amassing some 70k followers on Instagram, a noteworthy achievement to any artist.

But when it comes to the creative process itself, Eckman-Lawn mostly relies on his intuition. “Sometimes I have a clear idea in my head,” he told Beautiful Bizarre, adding that in such case it’s just a matter of finding the right images, “until it looks right.” According to him, “that can be really painstaking but occasionally it all just comes together cleanly.”

“I do feel very lucky that I get to make art for a living, and on days where it feels hard, I like to remind myself how much I’d rather do this than anything else,” he notes. Take a look at some of his original creations in the gallery below.

The post The Surreal Collage Art of Alex Eckman-Lawn appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Interested in the manipulation of tone, line, and shape, his collage process oscillates between quick improvisational moves and carefully planned revisions. Inspired by graffiti and urban decay, he also experiments with his source material, using tools such as charcoal and printmaking, instead of found paper cut out of books and magazines.

“I developed a process to fix the charcoal to paper to ensure its reliability as a medium for collage,” explained Voelker in a piece published on Artsy Shark. “The drawings are cut and arranged, layer after layer until a finished work emerges.”

As such, his collages have a distinct, rather somber, quality to them. According to him, his work involves an improvisational process of placing the cut pieces, then arranging and rearranging them until a new image is formed. “I rarely have a preconceived idea of what to make,” he says. “Rather, I let the pieces show me how they want to be arranged.”

Below you’ll find some of his more striking pieces.

The post This Collage Artist is Inspired by Urban Decay appeared first on MobiSpirit.

But her distinct style took some trial and error to develop. “In the beginning, I didn’t know what I really wanted to do,” admitted Pallarés in an interview with Talenthouse. “So, most of the works that I did at that time were clumsy compositions mixing photo and oil painting.”

But it all came together after coming across Dadaism and Surrealism. “I found Dadaism and Surrealism when I was studying graphic design at the university and somehow that changed my life,” reflected Pallarés. “I was blown away by how Dada artists used the composition, the typography, and the color. It just matched perfectly my way to understand the aesthetic of design and I suddenly found the answer for many questions about the meaning of contemporary art.”

While it is Pallarés’ portraits were first to catch our attention, she also experiments with more conceptual collage making, which tends to revolve around subjects that she finds important such as the passing of time and the unconscious. All very Dadaesque if you ask us…

The post Helena Pallarés’ Portraits are Bold and Graphic appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I cut out images, categorize them and then eventually piece them together like a complex paper jigsaw,” writes McCann on her website. She notes that a common theme throughout her work is the female face, which often acts as a reflection of the natural and sometimes magical world. Her female characters are often surrounded by birds, fish, and butterflies or submerged in a dense wallpaper pattern, which according to McCann either represents her prison or her liberation.

Like most creative souls, McCann’s artistic calling was hard to ignore early on. After growing up painting, drawing, cutting, and anything in between, she went on to study fashion in England. But after moving to the US with her family she returned to painting. “I started painting again and taking art classes,” she told Jung Katz. “I became fascinated with collage and eventually gave up the paintbrush and took up the scissors.”

Years later, and she hasn’t let go of her pair of scissors, arranging her papercut collections in careful compositions. See some of her work in the gallery below, and follow her Instagram page for more.

The post Katie McCann’s Whimsical Collage Art appeared first on MobiSpirit.

As such, it requires much time and patience, assembling the pieces together until a collage begins to take shape. With attention to beauty and to the harmony of composition, her works allow for an optimistic understanding of a world in which different shapes and forms come together as one.

Intertwining different film and TV genres, from vintage Hollywood to 1970s sci-fi, B-movies, and TV trash, Rivans’ work is in a constant dialogue with cultures of the past, reinventing existing film plots and narratives while spinning bizarre and dreamlike tales. The result is a sort of hybrid between Surrealism and Pop-Art—a reflection of Rivans’ sources of inspiration and natural inclination to the quirky and the unusual.

Her creations range in sizes, from large-scale originals to smaller, limited edition prints. Each is the product of months of careful deliberations and decisions—all aimed at creating that delicate balance of composition.

The post Maria Rivans’ Collage Art is Homage to Old Hollywood Glamour appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Handcrafting each work from start to finish, the result is highly textured and intricately detailed art pieces and collages that can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to complete. “I like to spend time reminiscing on the past while flipping through the pages of decades forgotten magazines, intently searching for the perfect shape, color, or texture within a periodical’s pages to add to my archive of collage elements,” writes Geiman on his website, reflecting on his creative process.

“I decided on the medium of collage because I didn’t have money to buy ‘proper’ supplies like fancy brushes or even canvas when I first started out,” he explains. “The paper I used then and still use today comes from abandoned spaces – old farmhouses, burned down buildings, abandoned gas stations, and the like.”

Multilayered and rich in narrative, his artwork weaves tales of foregone eras and untamed wilderness – landscapes, scenery, and characters that are inspired by the world he grew up in. “I grew up on a farm, caught crickets and bailed hay, painted with mud, dug up civil war relics, listened to midnight mockingbirds,” writes Geiman poetically. “These are the ingredients of life that have stuck with me and have built the foundation for the artwork I set forth into the world.” 

Below are some highlights from his Instagram page.

The post These Collages Were Assembled Using Reclaimed Materials appeared first on MobiSpirit.