Bruce D. Mitchel

I'm a creative type and always making something. I work as a freelance FX artist making Creatures, Props, Special Set Pieces, etcetera, etcetera. It has been pretty rewarding and I enjoy the chance to work with some kindred misfits "whilst" contributing to the movies. I believe it is important to amuse the gods with your endeavors. I have a great bunch of friends and I'm Married to the best girl in the world. I enjoy my life and try not to take little things to seriously. But I am an Aries. I also make and show my own art pieces. My works are inspired by Iconic Sci-Fi Fantasy concepts and Mythological characters from stories that I have absorbed here as an Earth child.

Dean Fleming

Dean Fleming »Dollhouse 3D«

... was born in Aberdeen, WA., U.S.A. and spent his teenage years playing in garage bands around the northwest. An interest in the visual arts led him to southern California where he attended Art Center College of Design, earning a degree in illustration. Working exclusively as a freelance illustrator, his clients included Microsoft, AT&T, Nike, Coca Cola, Paramount Pictures and many, many others. He is currently studying classical guitar and recently made the transition from illustration to fine art.

His art is like optical alchemy, using impressive technique to blend symbolic imagery and visual puns into eerie, yet beautifully illustrated works.

Dean Fleming »Shore Leave 300«

Dean Fleming »The Virgin«

Jon Jaylo

Jaylo »Numb«

Jon Jaylo's integrity of work is further enhanced by the clean, realistic presentation of images and his uniquely vivid choice of colors. His paintings are often rendered in playful and somehow chimerical representation imageries. However, behind these whimsical displacements of figures, most of his works are strongly bathed in concealed political undertones and soul-rekindling  propagandas of social revolution.

His paintings often question the concept of truth in general and the ever enduring, perpetual battle between good and evil. His works explore a very broad range of definition that it sometimes branches away into an abstraction of ideologies which perfectly applies to the different wavelengths of audiences. This, he explains is due to the interconnected existence of things and even ideas.Because he believes that universal social structure and governmental system of man is merely a reflection of his own.

Jaylo »As The Pendulum Swings«

So basically, his struggles within the society are basically synonymous with the struggles inside his inner, personal self and recurring demons. Like the extending versatility of his concepts, the artist's works are usually changing in appearance from time to time.

His technical depictions of imageries are often varying in display and style, as if he himself is never contented with the present stature of his works. As he is very competitive in nature, his works are so too. They are constantly evolving in both idea and form, gradually maturing together with the artist himself. His art is a sound marriage of two contrasting elements, such as the technical aspect of presenting images in a whimsical utopia and the other conceptual half of shrouding it with a very heavy burden of thought that which social realists normally use when presenting their sentiments for both public consumption and self reasoning.

He never stops at scaling this balance, in which he is able to demonstrate and visually narrate a massively deep philosophy of thought through a theatrical rendition of intensely brilliant colors that seem to amuse its audience and present a status of intellectual complacency. Like the end of each written parable, he doesn't just paint and bring random, senseless thoughts of revolution.

In fact, he wants the people to learn a certain "moral lesson" after viewing and contemplating on his works. According to the artist, all he wants is to share his radical ideologies in which people would find inspiration and somehow, the rekindling of their social awareness against the illusory delusions that the norms had polluted their minds with, even since from their respective moments of birth.

Jaylo »Unlocking the Paradox of Wisdom 2«

Mark Bannermann

Mark Bannerman, 2009

Mark Bannerman is an award winning 3D digital artist and illustrator living in Scotland with his wife and their young son. A perfectionist who excels at generating 3D renders with an organic humanized quality, his portfolio speaks of technical confidence, inspirational subtlety and stunning concept. Using 3D fused with a traditional media aesthetic to create quirky and dreamlike images , Mark has created works for BBC TV, British Airways, Sony, The Times, Maddona and many others.
"I see my 3D work as a linear continuation of my pre-digital work. Maintaining a simultaneous respect and disrespect for the medium of 3D is important to me for within all it's technical challenges, the essence of what constitutes a pleasing image remains the same for both digital and traditional mediums."

Mark Bannerman, 2009, Detail

Ali Eckert

The Artist and his Work

Ali Eckert’s images open a fantasy world to the observer.  They immediately reveal enough to awaken one’s curiosity while concealing enough to maintain the mystery. The viewer is drawn to slowly realize that there is a ‚story’ within the images.

In Eckert’s photographs the models grow into actors.  The characters are developed to fit a script and directed as in performing arts. One feels his many years of experience as a script writer and film director.

The characters have an ‚inner attitude’ and always know what they want. This makes the characters authentic.  His final composition then breaks the impression – an interplay that fascinates and entertains the viewer.

Biography

Ali Eckert grew up with the classic black-and-white fashion pictures of the 1950’s. His father, Kurt Eckert, worked as a fashion photographer in the 1950-1960’s.  Later, as a public relations entrepreneur, he hired such photographers as Walter Lautenbacher and Rudi Schmutz.

His mother, Nancy Riffe, was a Paris fashion model in the late1950’s working with photographers including Helmut Newton, Jean-Loup Sief, Harry Meerson and Jacques Rouchon.

Ali Eckert was educated in the United States and Europe and graduated with honors from the ‚Institute of Communications and Design’ in Wiesbaden,  Germany.  In the strict tradition of European professional standards, he studied as apprentice to a master photographer before starting his career.  He is a  citizen of both Germany and the United States and has shown his work on both sides of the Atlantic.

Raf Veulemans

Raf Veulemans »Dechainer«

... was born in Flanders, Belgium.

He is a self-taught artist who uses airbrush in combination with taxidermy, organic materials, acryl, oil, O rhesus +, pencils and ink.  In his artistic search, he wants to make the perishable eternal. He is fascinated by the beauty and fragility of non-living animals. Through his work, Veulemans tries to bring back life and beauty into the animals used in his works; he wants to portray them in death as he sees them in life: soft and innocent.

Veulemans combines acrylics and etchings with Taxidermy, employing old Egyptian mummification techniques as well as modern preserving techniques. Some of the works are meant as statements against animal testing and the use of animals in scientific experiments.

All the animals used in the paintings have died from natural causes. No animal was hurt in any way. Most of the animals are found, come from museum-collections that have been closed down or come from befriended taxidermists and breeders.

Raf Veulemans »Lavabo inter innocentes manus meas«

Raf Veulemans »Lavabo inter innocentes manus meas«, Detail

Raf Veulemans »Timi omnis angeli«

Raf Veulemans »Timi omnis angeli«, Detail