Simon Vaeth is a Danish artist and illustrator based n Copenhagen. Vaeth has been freelancing as an illustrator since greaduatng from the Kolding School of Design in 2010. His main interest is in linocut printmaking.
"My inspiration is a mixture of many different sources. But I often dig down in the old european folk art, I love the naive and symbolic language. My own work is graphic and often like the old folk art "flat" and naive, but also mixed with more modern elements."
In Andy's own words:
"I'm a retired master of worthless magic and the deadly art of jazz hands. Now I spend my days painting pictures of long lost days in a forest far away, and I try to chop at least one person and/or animal in the neck each day... usually under the influence of bourbon and/or the devil."
Alexej Fedorenko was born in 1961 in Kiev. In 1992 he graduated from the Academy of Art in Kiev. His work includes book illustration, design, painting, and printmaking. Since 1985 he has taken part in many exhibitions. His works are in private collections in Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, England, France, Holland, Russia, the United States, and the Ukraine.
"Aaron Horkey was birthed and reared deep in the heart of the Rural Midwest, specifically the small farming community of Windom, Minnesota. Key personality traits include debilitating social ineptitude and a perverse attention to detail. Also, believes himself to have been born 100 years too late. Enjoys desolation, megafauna and transplanting sumacs. Currently ensconced in a bucolic whistle stop just west of the Mississippi, he whiles away the hours writing of himself in the third person, staring at his chore list and cultivating ulcers. Fully prepared for and welcoming a long languishing into obscurity, Aaron is the sole survivor of the Black Osprey Dead Arts Society and founding member of the Cottonwood County Druids Skateboard Gang."
Horkey's silk-screened posters are a blend of Art Nouveau-influenced typography and decoration with intricate, surrealistic images of stylized flora and fauna. He works almost entirely without the aid of computers. Beginning with small pencil sketches, he moves up to larger ink drawings, then traces out each color separation by hand. It’s a painstaking process, but the hand-rendered precision really shows in the final product.
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Born in 1962 in Lithuania, Egidijus Rudinskas graduated from the Vilnius Art Academy in 1986. Since 1987, he has been a member of Lithuanian Society of Artists. Although he has worked as an illustrator of books, a designer of posters, and paints in oils, his graphic work is perhaps his most memorable and interesting. Here's a sampling of his etchings...
