hopkinson smith

simeon ten holt

pascal pinon

fatoumata diawara

soley

boards of canada

susumu yokota

tripolar

anselm kiefer

and an anselm kiefer for christmas....

laura marabresku

it's a shame that quite some amount of laura marabresku's work relies on the tired old trope of looking at naked (young, white) women. when she stepps away from that tho, as she does here, she reveals an eye that's very much worth looking at.

mary carlton

mary carlton is another one of those who doesn't exist online. you can google a bunch of her stuff on pinterest. i could look at the way she puts colours together all day

judith bergerson

every so often i come across someone whose work makes me want to make something jsut like that. judith bergerson continues the collage theme but for me she's got something of modern quilting stuck in there as well. absolutely google more of her images!

lynne perella

how to describe lynne perella? she says on her website abstract expressionist collage but that doesn't capture the half of it. i imagine her house just full of stuff waiting to be used!

holly irwin

i look at these and i definitely don't think there for me. but what i see in holly irwin's paintings are disintegrating women and it's a narrative i can't look away from. when it works - haunting

sigur ros

olafur arnalds

annette kleiner

as with the last post annette kleiner's work has a scuzzy texture and a way of working paint that i just can't resist

jac kephart

jac kephart - blocks, textures, drips and colours. tick all my boxes.

gerhard richter

i really don't need to put up a link for gerhard richter do i? okay then....

anne-laure djabbalah

check out anne-laure djabbalah's blog. not only does she have a blog but i relly love the insight she gives us into her process. and her studio looks like a laugh.

nils okland

myrkur

ivo stoyanov

continuing the red theme ivo stoyanov shows a commitment to big blocks of colour i can't argue with

the como mamas

chun-yi lee

i have no idea what this ink rubbing technique that chun-yi lee uses is but the results are dazzling

kitty sabatier

i'm getting really into red ink lately. kitty sabatier doesn't disappoint

koon wai bong

these, by koon wai bong, are just amazing

sextile

frankie rose

val britton

again, val britton doing things not a million miles away from some fo the stuff i've been doing - only about a million times better! inspirational

tracie cheng

it's always great to see people doing things you can't do yourself and the sureness and accuracy of these swirly lines is exactly that by tracie cheng

goat

thilo heinzmann

no surpises for guessing quite what it is about thilo heinzmann that's engaging me so much!

tiina kivinen

i don't know much about mezzotint but i do know i'm liking what tiina kivinen is achieving with it

more aphex twin

aphex twin

stephanie devaux

it's just how stephanie devaux does what she does but the range. smashes it out of the park.....

julie tsuchiya

what is not to like about julie tsuchiya?

sophie verbeek

i think sometimes with asemic work it's too easy to get carried about from the writing. sophie verbeek manages both. a total example.

forro in the dark

brian nash gill

the instant i saw brian nash gill's prints i loved them in that way you know you're just going to have to try that out. tricky!

juana molina

penguin cafe

i've been delighted to discover that the penguin cafe orchestra has evolved thru simon jeffers son arthur. and i love these wee nor tiny desk concerts

rebecca vincent

here's an antidote to all this week's monochrome. revel in rebecca vincent's colour and texture!

john virtue

i'm actually in london as i'm posting this. could there be a better artist to represent a certain vie of the city than john virtue?

music from books and films

have just remembered i never posted this playlist

norman ackroyd

norman ackroyd - seems like a lovely guy with an excellent commitment to getting the job done. love his images

john batho

john batho - takes an idea and runs with it. don't like everything he does (and that's a good thing) but these hit the spot

red pill

zilla rocca

hex kite

possibly the coolest kite i've ever seen.....

versis

dasha pliska

what's that you say - more illustrtaion from ukraine? the day i give up on bold lines is the day i give up on life! vibrant images from dasha pliska

nikita kaun

this is what happens when you don't pay attention in class, end up late for work, buses and meetings because you're overinvolved in drawing. if you don't check out nikita kaun's tumblr then i can't help you. her repurposed film posters are breathtaking

tony foster

there's landscape artists that just make you want to sit up and take notice. tony foster is one of these

milo

billy woods

stephanie pearl

no prizes for guessing i would be liking this image. stephanie pearl is a young london based photographer and judging by her portfolio as it stands will be one to watch as her style matures.

rosie anne prosser

 you could, if you wanted to be picky, say there was an economy of theme going on with rosie ann prosser and, if i was looking at a sequence of her images in succession, i might even agree. but that'd be to ignore how beguiled i am with the light in these, hwo they trigger other influences and set the scene for stories in my head.....

busdriver

rosalie gascoigne

 continuing on yesterday's theme here's rosalie gascoigne. i lok at her and just want to make things with rectangles!

sean scully

there's something deeply pleasing for me about the repeating shapes of sean scully

rodolphe burger

renaud papillon paravel

egene koo

the instant i saw this i knew that egene koo was going to be straight in to my favourite top ten red pictures. i'm loving this and i wish i could see it in the flesh just to get that full oil glow!

dave mckean

i seem to have a false memory that i first came across dave mckean in 2000ad  but the time that counted was when i got arkham asylum. mckean's a great example of an artist who doesn't restrict himself and eb it film, music, illustration he'll have a go

andi soto

i'm not going to lie, i swithered about putting andi soto on here. the internet is awash with images of young women, usually made by men, and i'm just not interested in that type of male gaze. also some of these images may be construed as nsfw if you follow the link. that said, i'm loving the way these were put together and, as ever, i'm a sucker for anything that leans into botany or zoology

oumou sangare

alexandra drenth

alexandra drenth is one of those textile artists that really catches my eye. i love this for starters but i'm equally beguiled by her simpler (but much more complex!!) narrative embroideries. check her out....

tessa makes love

skip & die

erich meister

erich meister - of whom i can discover almost nothing. his work is in here with a bunch of other swiss calligraphy and the site itself is well worth a delve

tinariwen

anna marie ottaviano

anna marie ottaviano - prints, textures, collages. easy to get lost in and why not?

hiroyuki doi

i do love dots and curcles so there's no way i was going to pass this by from hiroyuki doi

fabio alessandro fusco

i remember when i was a kid and i'd be watching things like flash gordon or metropolis and i'd be obsessed with what the cities looked like. these days it's work like this by fabio alessandro fusco

radio free brooklyn

youthstar

sylvain corentin

i just want to get out, grab a bunch of sticks and see what i can come up with. i am loving these by sylvain corentin

james nares

big bold sweeps of colour from james nares. i'm never going to complain about that!

silvia perez cruz

bo bartlett

i'd definitely never describe myself as a representative artist nor would i say that representation is what i like to look at but maybe, jsut maybe, this blog is changing all that. and these, by bo bartlett, are just triumphant

agnes obel

gaby hernandez

brandon locher

i am particularly impressed by brandon locher's turntable slipmat. check out his audio also

scott bergey

scott bergey isn't the most present on the internet but if he's making more pictures then we can forgive him for that

jaques dutronc

flower

i was never not going to love this!

sri irodikromo

sri irodikromo is anothr one of those artists for whom it's difficult to get an sort of detail online. which is a shame as her work is breathhtaking, encompassing textile, batik and paint. at least. as far as i can figure. i particularly loved her large banners. absolutely do a google image search. you'll be well rewarded

rupa and the april fishes

röyksopp and susanne sundfør

elisa ancori

you can't help feeling that elisa ancori has some work to do around her feelings about fish. but whatever. these images are sublime...

taj tenfold

i'm loving the retro vibe of these from taj tenfold. and colour, colour, colour!!