“The natural world compels me to explore it, delve deeper into it, and use the tools at my disposal to paint some frisson of my visceral connection to it,” relayed Hutchings Edlund in a piece she wrote for Artsy Shark. She invites the viewer to create his own narrative within the context of her art and to experience it in a positive and satisfying way. “All of my work is a communication between me and you,” she stressed.

With her work highly esteemed and collected in Canada, England, Germany, France, Italy, and the United States, there are plenty of people with whom she can communicate through her paintings. Her work has also won awards, and in October 2018, Hutchings Edlund was a recipient of the Dutchess County Executive Arts Award for Individual Artist that recognizes an individual residing in Dutchess County [NY], whose achievements in her discipline are widely recognized and who has demonstrated a compelling or unique artistic vision.

But though centered around the natural world, Hutchings Edlund admits to finding inspiration in other settings as well. “I find creative stimulation in unlikely places, such as a city street bathed in glistening, late-day light following a rain shower,” she reflects. “Such stimuli are the seeds from which ideas grow.”

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“I spent 20 days to create 20 illustrations inspired by the curves of playful and chilly cats. These are the landscape of my imaginative planet of cats,” the artist told Bored Panda and added that his mantra is “doodling a smile.”

Besides Instagram, the artist shares his illustrations on his personal website, as well. His cute illustrations have been published in many magazines and design blogs, both locally and internationally including IdN (International design Network), Readers Digest, M le weekend magazine of Le Monde (France’s leading newspaper), SwissMiss, etc.

If you are curious to see his artwork, check out the gallery below, and see why his photos regularly get thousands of likes from his 158,000 followers.

The post Lim Heng Swee Draws Landscapes Every Cat Lover Will Adore appeared first on MobiSpirit.

This creative spirit would go on to inspire Merriam’s career choice. At only 15, he entered the Bridgton Art Show and won first place in the student category. This was also where he was introduced to the painter Alan Magee. “I was amazed by his technique — such great realism, done so simply,” he writes. “Alan spent a great deal of time talking with me and set a standard of excellence not only in his work but in his person. I have never been able to match his skills, but I have instead cultivated merits of my own.”

“Through my art, I have learned the importance of following my heart,” writes Merriam, adding that though there were times when he felt like giving up, he eventually turned things around by perfecting his artistic talent. “If it had not been for my weaknesses, I never would have discovered my strengths,” he explains. “As my body of work grew, so did my place in the art community.” Sound advice.

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His work is the result of his dreams, as well as a lifelong obsession with LEGO, hay forts, and computers. “I hesitate to talk about how much dreams inspire my work, since its almost a cliché and boring to listen to, but it can’t be understated,” he admitted in an interview with Line Gallery. “There’s a kind of magic vitality there that’s almost impossible to put into words, and images can only hint at it. So yes, its possible to read a lot into the work psychologically speaking.”

His digital landscapes are meant to be a combination of creepy and whimsical – a sort of immersive universe that invites the viewer in. “Perhaps this boils down to wanting my drawings to be haunted in the same way that my dreams locales often feel haunted,” remarked Borrett.

“I hope that a viewer will be able to put themselves in my spaces,” he adds. “To that end, I’ve avoided adding any figures of any kind to inhabit the rooms, so the viewer is free to imagine themselves inhabiting them if they choose.”

Take a look inside.

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Based between Melbourne and the US, Shaw travels the globe to find inspiration. “Most of the time I really need to experience a place before I make work about it,” she told Lost At E Minor. “Recently, I did a residency at SIM in Iceland that allowed me to travel to some amazing places there. The lava flows and melting glaciers create incredible sculptural forms, which inspires how I translate this into the paintings. I am very visceral.”

According to Shaw, her passion for landscape painting was also a byproduct of her travels, while visiting Central Australia. “A visit to Central Australia in 2004 really helped me coalesce ideas about the materiality of paint and how this could connect with the material world through landscape,” she explained. “The sedimentary layers of rocks literally looked like the paint I was playing around with in my studio, and it started from there.”

Exhibited in cities around the world, her paintings serve as reinterpretations of what actually constitutes landscape painting, both within an art history context and a contemporary social context.

Take a look.

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With well more than 200k fans on Instagram, her works have caught the attention of both the online and offline community, appearing in publications like The New York Times, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, and the Smithsonian Magazine.

Based in Brooklyn, Forman’s art takes her around the world, and she has flown with NASA on several Operation IceBridge missions over Antarctica, Greenland, and Arctic Canada. “In all my travels I have never experienced a landscape as epic and pristine as Antarctica,” she shared with ArtStar. “I still haven’t found the words to properly convey the majesty and ethereal wonder of that icy continent!”

“I hope my drawings can facilitate a deeper understanding of the climate crisis, helping us find meaning and optimism in shifting landscapes,” she adds. “I hope they can serve as records of landscapes in flux, documenting the transition, and inspiring our global community to take action for the future.”

Take a look at some of her work in the gallery below.

The post These Icy Landscape Paintings Document the Effects of Climate Change appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Justin Gaffrey is an American artist who creates paintings with a lot of depth. All his paintings are unique and quite expressive. This talented artist is a painter who creates an illusion of horizon and depth in all his landscape paintings. These features make them surreal and realistic while maintaining their beauty and color.

Gaffrey taught himself all the painting styles he uses. He did so by exploring different techniques such as the ones used by Monet and Van Gogh. Shortly, he combined these methods to form his own style. This immersion in creative thought, as well as depth of imagination, gave him an opportunity to create amazing art that focuses on the environment.

See some of his work in the gallery below.

The post Artist Uses Impasto Painting Style to Bring Landscapes to Life appeared first on MobiSpirit.

He draws the skyline of cities from memory after one brief helicopter ride over the city and they are beautiful. He was able to draw a detailed picture of four square miles of London and nineteen-foot-long drawing of 305 square miles of New York City after a short helicopter ride over the city that lasted for less than twenty minutes.

Wiltshire made his longest ever panoramic memory drawing of Tokyo on a 32.8-foot-long (10.0 m) canvas in seven days after a helicopter ride over the city.

This tremendous feat ushered him to a new a level and he has since drawn Rome, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Madrid, Dubai, Jerusalem and London on giant canvasses. When Wiltshire drew Rome; it was so detailed that he drew the exact number of columns in the pantheon.

Wiltshire has also published books with one of his books made it to the Sunday Times best-seller list.

The post This Artist Can Draw Any Landscape After Seeing it Just Once appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Wanting to offer social media users a unique insight into the inspiring scenery of the Alps, Furlan recently shared some of these photos with social media users, posting them on Instagram and Behance.

“Landscape photography is a great motivation to discover new places and to get out of your comfort zone,” Furlan says about his work. “My connection to the mountains goes way back, and when I started with landscape photography, I had the perfect playground right on the doorstep.”

Enjoy some of his works below. 

The post Photographer Captures the Magical Beauty of the Alps appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Iceland, India, the United States, Mexico, Japan, Vietnam, Kenya… The list of countries where the young photographer went is quite long. His first shoot abroad was for ES Magazine in Vietnam when he was just 17 years old. This trip gave him the confidence to pursue his career. Bold and thirsty for travel, he puts all his personality to good use in his work.

He is now widely sought after for his unique way of capturing images that combine high fashion and nature. He has the talent to find the places that will offer each photo a fantastic atmosphere while putting the model in the center of attention.

To create a particular environment for each image, he thinks, imagines and even dreams about his images weeks before the shoot. For him, the landscape must meet at least two of these three qualifiers: epic, colorful and cinematographic.

However, he manages to capture equally captivating images in the studio, without a particular setting. His favorite challenge is the mastery of the decor after finding the most sumptuous landscape.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnrWsDWnf3o/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfZDbmtAOH0/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhCg8QJgfxE/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BknrO1zgjdF/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkBKVgvA18f/

https://www.instagram.com/p/-83bManXvv/?taken-by=grantjamesthomas

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“The natural world compels me to explore it, delve deeper into it, and use the tools at my disposal to paint some frisson of my visceral connection to it,” relayed Hutchings Edlund in a piece she wrote for Artsy Shark. She invites the viewer to create his own narrative within the context of her art and to experience it in a positive and satisfying way. “All of my work is a communication between me and you,” she stressed.

With her work highly esteemed and collected in Canada, England, Germany, France, Italy, and the United States, there are plenty of people with whom she can communicate through her paintings. Her work has also won awards, and in October 2018, Hutchings Edlund was a recipient of the Dutchess County Executive Arts Award for Individual Artist that recognizes an individual residing in Dutchess County [NY], whose achievements in her discipline are widely recognized and who has demonstrated a compelling or unique artistic vision.

But though centered around the natural world, Hutchings Edlund admits to finding inspiration in other settings as well. “I find creative stimulation in unlikely places, such as a city street bathed in glistening, late-day light following a rain shower,” she reflects. “Such stimuli are the seeds from which ideas grow.”

The post This Painter is Compelled By the Natural World appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I spent 20 days to create 20 illustrations inspired by the curves of playful and chilly cats. These are the landscape of my imaginative planet of cats,” the artist told Bored Panda and added that his mantra is “doodling a smile.”

Besides Instagram, the artist shares his illustrations on his personal website, as well. His cute illustrations have been published in many magazines and design blogs, both locally and internationally including IdN (International design Network), Readers Digest, M le weekend magazine of Le Monde (France’s leading newspaper), SwissMiss, etc.

If you are curious to see his artwork, check out the gallery below, and see why his photos regularly get thousands of likes from his 158,000 followers.

The post Lim Heng Swee Draws Landscapes Every Cat Lover Will Adore appeared first on MobiSpirit.

This creative spirit would go on to inspire Merriam’s career choice. At only 15, he entered the Bridgton Art Show and won first place in the student category. This was also where he was introduced to the painter Alan Magee. “I was amazed by his technique — such great realism, done so simply,” he writes. “Alan spent a great deal of time talking with me and set a standard of excellence not only in his work but in his person. I have never been able to match his skills, but I have instead cultivated merits of my own.”

“Through my art, I have learned the importance of following my heart,” writes Merriam, adding that though there were times when he felt like giving up, he eventually turned things around by perfecting his artistic talent. “If it had not been for my weaknesses, I never would have discovered my strengths,” he explains. “As my body of work grew, so did my place in the art community.” Sound advice.

The post Between Realism and Fantasy: Daniel Merriam’s Paintings appeared first on MobiSpirit.

His work is the result of his dreams, as well as a lifelong obsession with LEGO, hay forts, and computers. “I hesitate to talk about how much dreams inspire my work, since its almost a cliché and boring to listen to, but it can’t be understated,” he admitted in an interview with Line Gallery. “There’s a kind of magic vitality there that’s almost impossible to put into words, and images can only hint at it. So yes, its possible to read a lot into the work psychologically speaking.”

His digital landscapes are meant to be a combination of creepy and whimsical – a sort of immersive universe that invites the viewer in. “Perhaps this boils down to wanting my drawings to be haunted in the same way that my dreams locales often feel haunted,” remarked Borrett.

“I hope that a viewer will be able to put themselves in my spaces,” he adds. “To that end, I’ve avoided adding any figures of any kind to inhabit the rooms, so the viewer is free to imagine themselves inhabiting them if they choose.”

Take a look inside.

The post Enter Mathew Borrett’s Mystifying Worlds appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Based between Melbourne and the US, Shaw travels the globe to find inspiration. “Most of the time I really need to experience a place before I make work about it,” she told Lost At E Minor. “Recently, I did a residency at SIM in Iceland that allowed me to travel to some amazing places there. The lava flows and melting glaciers create incredible sculptural forms, which inspires how I translate this into the paintings. I am very visceral.”

According to Shaw, her passion for landscape painting was also a byproduct of her travels, while visiting Central Australia. “A visit to Central Australia in 2004 really helped me coalesce ideas about the materiality of paint and how this could connect with the material world through landscape,” she explained. “The sedimentary layers of rocks literally looked like the paint I was playing around with in my studio, and it started from there.”

Exhibited in cities around the world, her paintings serve as reinterpretations of what actually constitutes landscape painting, both within an art history context and a contemporary social context.

Take a look.

The post Enter Kate Shaw’s Surreal Landscapes appeared first on MobiSpirit.

With well more than 200k fans on Instagram, her works have caught the attention of both the online and offline community, appearing in publications like The New York Times, National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, and the Smithsonian Magazine.

Based in Brooklyn, Forman’s art takes her around the world, and she has flown with NASA on several Operation IceBridge missions over Antarctica, Greenland, and Arctic Canada. “In all my travels I have never experienced a landscape as epic and pristine as Antarctica,” she shared with ArtStar. “I still haven’t found the words to properly convey the majesty and ethereal wonder of that icy continent!”

“I hope my drawings can facilitate a deeper understanding of the climate crisis, helping us find meaning and optimism in shifting landscapes,” she adds. “I hope they can serve as records of landscapes in flux, documenting the transition, and inspiring our global community to take action for the future.”

Take a look at some of her work in the gallery below.

The post These Icy Landscape Paintings Document the Effects of Climate Change appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Justin Gaffrey is an American artist who creates paintings with a lot of depth. All his paintings are unique and quite expressive. This talented artist is a painter who creates an illusion of horizon and depth in all his landscape paintings. These features make them surreal and realistic while maintaining their beauty and color.

Gaffrey taught himself all the painting styles he uses. He did so by exploring different techniques such as the ones used by Monet and Van Gogh. Shortly, he combined these methods to form his own style. This immersion in creative thought, as well as depth of imagination, gave him an opportunity to create amazing art that focuses on the environment.

See some of his work in the gallery below.

The post Artist Uses Impasto Painting Style to Bring Landscapes to Life appeared first on MobiSpirit.

He draws the skyline of cities from memory after one brief helicopter ride over the city and they are beautiful. He was able to draw a detailed picture of four square miles of London and nineteen-foot-long drawing of 305 square miles of New York City after a short helicopter ride over the city that lasted for less than twenty minutes.

Wiltshire made his longest ever panoramic memory drawing of Tokyo on a 32.8-foot-long (10.0 m) canvas in seven days after a helicopter ride over the city.

This tremendous feat ushered him to a new a level and he has since drawn Rome, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Madrid, Dubai, Jerusalem and London on giant canvasses. When Wiltshire drew Rome; it was so detailed that he drew the exact number of columns in the pantheon.

Wiltshire has also published books with one of his books made it to the Sunday Times best-seller list.

The post This Artist Can Draw Any Landscape After Seeing it Just Once appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Wanting to offer social media users a unique insight into the inspiring scenery of the Alps, Furlan recently shared some of these photos with social media users, posting them on Instagram and Behance.

“Landscape photography is a great motivation to discover new places and to get out of your comfort zone,” Furlan says about his work. “My connection to the mountains goes way back, and when I started with landscape photography, I had the perfect playground right on the doorstep.”

Enjoy some of his works below. 

The post Photographer Captures the Magical Beauty of the Alps appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Iceland, India, the United States, Mexico, Japan, Vietnam, Kenya… The list of countries where the young photographer went is quite long. His first shoot abroad was for ES Magazine in Vietnam when he was just 17 years old. This trip gave him the confidence to pursue his career. Bold and thirsty for travel, he puts all his personality to good use in his work.

He is now widely sought after for his unique way of capturing images that combine high fashion and nature. He has the talent to find the places that will offer each photo a fantastic atmosphere while putting the model in the center of attention.

To create a particular environment for each image, he thinks, imagines and even dreams about his images weeks before the shoot. For him, the landscape must meet at least two of these three qualifiers: epic, colorful and cinematographic.

However, he manages to capture equally captivating images in the studio, without a particular setting. His favorite challenge is the mastery of the decor after finding the most sumptuous landscape.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnrWsDWnf3o/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfZDbmtAOH0/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhCg8QJgfxE/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BknrO1zgjdF/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkBKVgvA18f/

https://www.instagram.com/p/-83bManXvv/?taken-by=grantjamesthomas

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