Tristan Elwell | Fantasy Illustrator

Tristan Elwell is an award-winning American painter, illustrator and educator based in New York.

Best known for his highly detailed oil paintings that blend meticulous traditional techniques with pop-surrealism, fantasy and dark wit, he has created book covers and promotional art for nearly every major commercial publisher.

Tristan Elwell was born and raised in New York City, where he graduated from the High School of Music and Art, now LaGuardia High School.

He attended the School of Visual Arts on a full scholarship, graduating in 1990 at the top of his class.

While at SVA he also worked as a painting assistant to noted photorealist Charles Bell.

George Grie, 1962 | Neo-Surrealist painter

George Grie is a Russian-Canadian artist.

One of the first digital surrealism artists, Grie is known for numerous 3D, 2D, and matte painting images.

Born in the USSR during the Soviet regime he did not adopt the conventional and politically correct socialist realism art style.

Grie's artistic style has been heavily influenced by famous surrealists such as René Magritte and Salvador Dalí, fantastic realists Zdzisław Beksiński and Wojciech Siudmak, and surreal photomanipulation artist Jerry Uelsmann.

His neo-surrealist artwork is a combination of classic surrealist symbolism with modern fantasy, gothic and visionary arttendencies.

Ben Goossens, 1945 | Il "Magritte della fotografia"

Ben Goossens was born in Liezele, Belgium and attended the St Lucas Art School in Brussels where he studied Illustration and Photography.

After four years in Art School, illustration and photography became his obsession.

He worked in advertising for 32 years, mostly as an Art Director, where he gained 15 years of Photoshop experience.

His source of inspiration in advertising came from surrealist paintings and still does in his work now.

His hobby and passion now is creating ‘experimental / surreal photomontages’, these images are very seamless yet painterly dreamscapes.

Bob Stroody | Fantasy painter

Stroody (Bob) is a British digital painter, graphic designer, photographer and illustrator of the UK.

Pictures Bob's full of magical beauty and fabulousness and performed at the highest professional level.

Stroody's signature portfolios focus primarily on surreal, atmospheric landscapes.

His work frequently features vibrant color play, seasonal transformations (especially autumn and winter themes) and mystical wonderland aesthetics.

Richard Ramsey, 1954 | Portrait photographer

Richard Ramsey is a highly celebrated, award-winning portrait photographer based in Memphis, Tennessee, who is best known for his mastery of digital portrait painting.

Spanning a career of over four decades, he blends traditional portrait photography with classical painterly aesthetics.

He has been honored eleven times with the prestigious title of "Photographer of the Year".

Svetlana Bobrova, 1960 | Surrealist painter

The surreal world, created by Svetlana Bobrova / Светлана Боброва, is full of strange creatures.

In this world everything is possible.

Her artworks are full of energy, passion and grotesqueness.

Like dreams, they are born from real anxieties and experiences, taking the spectator far into the depths of sub-consciousness.

They have a hypnotic internal glow, which penetrates the eyes with tonal transitions of neon, green, yellow and blue.

Carlos Alberto Quintero | Magic Realism painter

Colombian painter Carlos Alberto Quintero is a Art Investigator, Professor and Mix Media Artist.

Quintero’s passion and strength on investigation and exploration is captured on his Artwork, which covers a vast journey in the dimension of the roots of the Latin-American magic realism.

Quintero has a long trajectory exhibiting his artwork nationally and internationally with great results.

He possesses extensive knowledge of Aesthetic Education, Graphic Design and Master in Art Education: National University of Colombia (Bogota), plastic arts and extensive work experience within the country and overseas and during his career he has received various awards such as recognition from the Florida’s Governor Charlie Christ for his artistic contributions to the community.

Stanislav Aristov, 1982 | Match sticks Art

Russian artist Stanislav Aristov creates miniature sculptures by bending matches and fire, into a desired shape.

A matchstick is something so ordinary and simple that one could hardly imagine it could become an object of art.

Aristov unveils the artistic potential of matches in his his "Спички / matchsticks" series.

This photographer literally plays with fire by bending the matches into the desired shapes as they burn, then uses a macro lens and a studio flash to shoot the fire and the smoke around it.

The artist then moves to Photoshop to finish the image.