Canadian artist Drew Young works mainly with oils and collage on mahogany. His art is inspired by lost and found adolescence.
Young says “We are lost in our self-indulgent primal behaviour, forgoing the morals and values our parents have instilled in us. In these images we reflect on our own experiences of these dark visceral moments and places.”
Baltimore based artist Beth Hoeckel works mainly on collage, mixed media, and photography. She attended Carver Center for Arts magnet school and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Hoeckel says “I’ve been broke most of my life but experiencing the world is more important.”
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The Colombian artist Elena Landínez creates collage illustrations by recycling pieces of stamps, maps, photos among others. She also adds drawings and typography to her artwork which gives them an interesting and unique style.
Elena was commissioned to do illustrations for publishing house Villegas Editores who used them in their range of children books.
These illustrations were taken from the book “Alicia en el país de las delicias” based on Alice in Wonderland.
“Derek has gained national attention for his collage portrait series, recycling magazines, labels, and found materials to create the works on canvas.” (Derekgores.com).
Artist Jose Romussi breathes new life into his artwork by recollecting images from different old fashion magazines and embroidering colorful thread onto collages. Get inspired here.
“It all started on a long trip to Greece. My initial purpose with the trip was to relax and do absolutely nothing apart from that, but after a while I got bored. And as I had previously done a couple of drawings on paper, it felt natural for me to go out and buy some pencils and paper, and see what would come out of it. So that’s how things really started. I put my drawings together with stuff I found in the streets. I kind of tried to make sketches that I wanted to re-make on canvas when I returned to Denmark, but for some reason I didn’t. Instead I started to make collages and paintings on canvas when I got back home. And it went on from there.” Glenn Moust
Based in Washington DC, Claudine Hellmuth is an illustrator who creates mixed media collages that incorporate paper, paint, fabric, pen and photocopies. Hellmuth describes her work as whimsical and colorful with a dash of retro.
She´s part of the Escape from Illustration Island list and we´re expecting great work from her this year.
