Boris Indrikov, 1967 | Magical Realism painter

Борис Индриков is a Russian painter contemporary artist, renowned for his highly detailed work in the genre of fantastic realism.

His unique visual language seamlessly weaves together elements of surrealism, symbolism and Art Nouveau, heavily influenced by the masters of the European Renaissance and Eastern cultures.

Born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Indrikov initially pursued engineering before shifting his full focus to art in 1990.

Renso Castaneda, 1970 | Figurative painter

Renso Castaneda (born Renso Zevallos Castaneda) is a prominent Peruvian contemporary figurative painter known for his highly detailed oil paintings that blend precise realism with surrealism.

Born in Lima, Peru, his artwork focuses heavily on portraiture and the exploration of the human form, often infusing his subjects with dreamlike, emotional and poetic elements.

Beyond his career as a gallery artist, Castaneda is highly active in international art education, teaching fine art techniques to global audiences online.

Graduated from the National Autonomous Superior School of Fine Arts of Peru, where he studied painting from 1989 to 1995.

Agnès Boulloche | Fantastic Surrealism painter

Agnès Boulloche (1951-2019) was a prominent French Surrealist painter and sculptor renowned for creating fantastical, dreamlike universes.

Heavily inspired by her childhood in Morocco and the works of Old Masters like Hieronymus Bosch, her art blends human and animal forms into surreal, allegorical creatures.

Born in Paris, she was the daughter of André Boulloche, a prominent French resistance fighter and Minister of Education.

She spent her early childhood in Morocco.

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.

Valeriy Kot, 1958 | Surrealist painter

Valeriy Kot is a prominent contemporary Ukrainian surrealist painter.

Born in Polesskoe (Kyiv region), he initially trained and worked as an industrial architect before transitioning to a full-time painting career in 1985.

In 1985 changes his vocation and starts dealing with art, lead by ideas of surrealism he is so fascinated by, from his earlier years.

In 1977 performs his first art works in surrealism genre.

His first show took place on April 1979.

Didier Delamonica, 1950 | Surrealits painter

Didier Delamonica is a contemporary French painter born in Lille, France.

He is widely recognized for his unique mystical fantasy and surrealist painting style, which blends vibrant color palettes with complex, dream-like narratives.

His studies include "Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles", commencing with two careers working adjacent during several years, comprising publicite/advertising and painting.

Now, he presents his work in numerous galleries all over France.

The works of Delamonica are including a number of private collections in USA and Canada and in Europe.

Girel Oleg | Minimalist portraits

These Minimalist portraits by artist Girel Oleg eliminate all but a few colors to tell their story.

Oleg Girel is a Belarusian cinematographer, director of photography, and visual artist known for his work in film production and digital photography.

Each image (originally a photograph) was digitally remixed, removing layer upon layer of detail to leave just contour lines and patches of richly textured color.

It’s a simple, yet effective effect.

Ricardo Fernandez Ortega, 1971 | Surrealist painter

Ricardo Fernández Ortega is a prominent Mexican surrealist painter, known for seamlessly fusing 17th-century classical artistic techniques with modern, dream-like subjects.

Born in Durango, Mexico, his meticulous oil-on-canvas works frequently explore themes of mystery, psychological depth and the societal roles of women.

He utilizes dramatic light and shadow contrast reminiscent of Spanish Baroque master Diego Velázquez.

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.

Julio César Rodríguez Aguilar, 1976 | Surrealist painter

Julio César Rodríguez Aguilar is a Cuban-born surrealist painter, illustrator and drawing teacher known for creating dreamlike, symbolic works.

Since he was young he was inclined to the arts.

He began his studies at the age of 12, in the vocational school of art in Holguin.

He later continued in a professional school in the city.

After graduating in 1995, he dedicated himself entirely to finding his own true line of art.

Ronald Compánoca, 1981 | Magic realism painter

Ronald Compánoca is a contemporary Peruvian painter born in Arequipa, widely recognized for his captivating style that blends magical realism with a surrealist bent.

His work invites viewers into a fairytale-like, dreamlike universe populated by mysterious, timeless characters.

His paintings lean heavily into dream logic, fantasy, and theatrical setups.

Playful and mysterious figures frequently dominate his canvas, including harlequins, magicians, jesters, toy makers and circus performers.

Lennette Newell, 1959 | Naturalist photographer

Lennette Newell is an acclaimed American fine art and commercial photographer based in San Francisco, California.

She is world-renowned for her bold wildlife portraits and conceptual body-painting series that explore the blurring lines and evolutionary kinship between humans and the animal kingdom.

Lennette Newell channels a lifelong passion for Earth’s biodiversity and the magical wonder of the natural world into compelling animal portraits that afford viewers an intimate glimpse of creatures large and small.

Timur Tsaku,1972 | Surreal / Hyperrealist painter

Timur Tsaku was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

After graduating from art school in 1987, he continued his education in the P.P. Ben’kov College majoring in theater decoration and taught painting and sketching in the Tashkent Academy of Art and Theater.

In 1991, Tsaku left for Israel, where he began working on Chayot HaKodesh (The G-d’s Angels) paintings, that were later combined into one of his most significant art series.

This series made Tsaku famous in the art world, and especially among the American artists of the realism genre.

He returned to Israel in 2001 to create biblically-inspired Israeli art.

Joanna Szewczyk, 1973 | Surrealist painter

Joanna Szewczyk-Oczkowska is an established Polish contemporary painter with more than 30 years of artistic experience, whose art leans heavily into magical realism, emotional portraiture and dark surrealism.

Her work blurs the lines between expressive realism and structural abstraction.

She heavily utilizes palette knives, multi-layered paint applications, and controlled dripping techniques to construct depth and motion.

Her paintings frequently juxtapose softly modeled human portraits against dynamic, geometric, or architectural backgrounds.

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.

Gennady Privedentsev, 1955 | Surrealist painter

Russian painter Gennady Privedentsev was born in Krasnodar City.

He studied at the Kuban State University at the faculty of technical and graphic arts.

He graduated from the University in 1981 and has been a member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1991.

He has participated in city, regional, zonal, and international exhibitions since 1980.

The first prize winner of the International Exhibition of Caricatures in 1995.

Awarded the diploma of Biennale-2003.

Il Realismo metaforico di Vladimir Kush, 1965

Vladimir Kush, painter and sculptor, was born in Russia, in a one-story wooden house near the Moscow forest-park Sokolniki.

At the age of seven Vladimir began to attend art school until late evening where he became acquainted with the works of great artists of the Renaissance, famous Impressionists and Modern Artists.

Michael Page, 1979 | Pop Surrealism painter

Michael Page, American painter, art paints oil and acrylic paintings that are abstract and surreal with animals and bright colors.

Living and working in San Francisco, CA, Page creates vibrant dreamscapes using eye-popping colors and a focus on the spirit that breathes inside every living organism, the Pneuma.

With a trademark technique of using bold brush strokes and vibrant color palettes, Page’s paintings seem to jump off the canvas as they question new life, science, and the infinite variations of consciousness.

He has shown his work nationally and internationally throughout both Europe and the United States including the cities of Reykjavik, Berlin, Bristol, Rome and Montreal.

Wolfgang Lettl | Surrealist painter

Wolfgang Lettl (1919-2008) was a surrealist painter who was born and who died in Augsburg, Germany.

Success with his freelance art led him to develop his surrealism, and he participated in the 1963 Grosse Kunstausstellung München - the "Grand Art Exhibition Munich", becoming a member of the Neue Münchener Künstlergenossenschaft - "New Munich Artist Cooperative Society".

One-man shows in Germany and abroad followed.