Courtney Brims

Courtney Brims is a self-taught artist living in Brisbane. He artwork, featured in this months Frankie Magazine, reflects her obsession with all thing unusual. Her work can be purchase via her online shop.

Nikki Farquharson

Thanks to the Cool Hunter for putting me onto London-based graphic designer and illustrator, Nikki Farquharson. Her ongoing project, Mixed Media Girls, gives the viewer a lot to look at. The collages appear innocent and sweet but at the same time sharp and edgy.

Minjae Lee

The Cool Hunter has founds some more great talent. Minjae Lee is a young South Korean artist whose work expresses a semi-disturbing inner tension that is tough to ignore, even if you feel that you'd like to. It draws you in with its powerful colours, halting imagery and clever juxtaposition of beauty, innocence and fragility with brash, loud and aggressive.

David Downton

Having recently graced the cover of Vogue's special anniversary edition, David Downton's incredible fashion illustrations have been exposed for all to enjoy. He is a master of his craft, and his amazing portfolio may be viewed at www.daviddownton.com

Kat Macleod

I have been to add Kat to my blog for way too long, and finally I have got around to doing it! I had the pleasure of having Kat in my classes at University. She was gorgeous then, and even more gorgeous now. Kat Macleod’s collage ladies will inspire confusing feelings of wardrobe envy, even though they are drawings and not people. She finds fashion, textiles, new art supplies and old books inspiring. Her clients include Vogue Entertaining and Travel, Collette Dinnigan, Harper’s Bazaar, Madison and Frankie. She has also illustrated three books, Bird, The Cocktail Book and Like I give a frock. She enjoys hot chips, talking on the phone and her cat. She also runs her own design business with friends called Ortolan. She is a true inspiration.

Yulia Brodskaya

Yulia Brodskaya is a Russian born artist who studied in London, and has been creating wonderful artworks ever since. She finds herself constantly experimenting and evolving, always pushing her style in new directions. I always knew that paper quilling would come back into vogue! Image courtesy of Freshly Blended.

Mizue Hirano

Mizue Hirano's watercolors are so gorgeous and delicate. Shown here are examples of her work on a book, poster, packaging and magazine spreads in Japan. I love to see such a soft medium being applied to advertising and mainstream design. (Source Oh Joy!)

Vektor Junkie

Von stumbled across this site at work the other day, and I am so glad she did. Vektor Junkie is a site that hosts Vektorika Magazine, an online magazine devoted to all that is vector, and it is fabulous (with up to 100 pages per issue!). Each issue is available for download, and features submissions from digital artists all over the world. It amazes me just how many talented people there are in the world!

Bill O'Neil

I found the works of Bill O'Neil via the Paper Shop Ink blog.'My creations are an illustrative and graphic fusion of abstracts and symbolism, chaos and mathematics, pop culture advertising and artifacts, and some kind of otherworldly information maps... I always seek to create pieces that feel kinetic, that seem evolve or change based on the viewers mood, or resonate differently with different people... something like mood-art...'. Well worth checking out his Etsy shop and website.

ANTIGIRL

Antigirl (Tiphane brooke) is a talented young girl who works in mixed media to create fabulous fashion-styled collages. Her work is available as prints, lithographs and books, together with a handful of original artworks. Her 'bleed deeply' collection is truly beautiful, and her gorgeous books are sewn and constructed by hand.

V4von

Von and Anri have joined forces to created some wickedly original digital art. Working from Anri's gorgeous hand drawn sketches, Von brings the work to life through digital painting in a truely unique style. You can see more of Von's work (V4von) at Deviant art, or email me to enquire about prints for purchase.

Kendra Binney

Kendra's artwork utilises whimsical colours and has a wonderful child-like quality. Her gorgeous prints are small but intimate, and block mounted so they are ready to hang. You can see more of her work on her website www.kendra-binney.com, or buy her prints at her etsy shop kendrabinney.etsy.com. Here are two of my favourites, titled 'This place is full of lost monsters' and 'Dream of being underwater'.

Catherine Campbell

This is a girl who would love to spend the afternoon up a tree chatting to the birds. Her artwork is available at numerous places, such as Etsy.com, and she has her own website too, http://www.catherinecampbell.net/, simply beautiful.

Marian Bantjes

Marian Bantjes is an amazing designer and typographer who has worked with some of the best studios in the world, this is one talented lady. See some of her work at www.bantjes.com

Feanne

I stumbled across this artist while looking at deviantart the other day. I am really loving the detail of her illustrative style, and the fact that she incorporates fish and cats into her drawings. You can find her work at: http://feanne.com/