Rachel Dreimiller’s online moniker is “Spooky Ghoul” and she describes herself as a “Gothic Granny” and “creepster.” Her embroidery art is heavy on skulls and bony hands, a juxtaposition that turns a typically homey medium modern and edgy. The artist herself is equally contradictory; along with a love of zombies and Poe, she’s borderline obsessed […]
Category: Interviews
Passion, Fragmentation, and Nachos: Interview with Artist Witchoria
Victoria Siemer—known online and through her personal artwork as Witchoria— is a New York-based graphic designer who in her spare time makes otherwordly digital art. While studying design at SUNY Buffalo, Siemer immersed herself in the ideas of emotional fragmentation and “fragmentation of the self.” Since then, her work has evolved into surreal photo manipulations […]
Hyperrealist Tattoos with an Italian Flair: Interview with Silvano Fiato
Inspired by classical Italian art and music, Silvano Fiato channels centuries of history into his hyperrealistic tattoos. His Eternal Tattoo Studio in Genoa evokes a Renaissance salon, combining a lofty cultural air with the raw mechanical inking of skin. An artist from a young age, Fiato attended an art institute to hone his skills. Early […]
Mind-Bending Body Art: Interview with Tattoo Artist Łukasz Sokołowski
It’s as if the Polish-based creative Łukasz Sokołowski was destined to be a tattoo artist. He started his career not once, but twice: first as an inexperienced teenager that created some bad ink. After a long break, he returned to the field ready to try again. The second time Sokołowski started to tattoo, it stuck—he’s […]
An Interview with Sophie Brown, a Rising Star on the UK Tattoo Scene
At twenty-two Sophie Brown, from Warrington, Cheshire, a town in England situated between famous cities Liverpool and Manchester, is a promising artist on the UK tattoo art scene. In a short space of time, she has won several prizes and had work featured in Total Tattoo magazine. Sophie is also my cousin. Despite our shared […]
Pop Color Tattoos: An Interview with Ivana Belakova
It didn’t take much for Ivana Belakova to realize that tattooing was what she wanted to do the first time she put needle to skin. The self-taught Slovakian artist initially started working in black and grey, but has since expanded her palette. That transition, led to her developing a style that combines the vibrant, chaotic […]
Interview with Watercolor Tattooer Jay Freestyle
We are living in such a demanding and competitive world, that it is always remarkable when you meet someone who goes against the current to pursuing a career in the arts, and actually succeeds. Meet Jay Freestyle, born and raised in South Africa and growing up in a conservative Chinese family during hard times in […]
Interview with Tattoo Artist Cody Eich
Soon to be a first-time dad, Cody Eich is excited about family life as he is about religion, nature, and art. His tattoo creations are visual studies of how everything in our planet, and outside of it, is interconnected. Nature and science come together in his artistic compositions including wildlife, landscapes, humans, biology diagrams and […]
Colorful Digital Art: An Interview with Archan Nair
The mystical land of India resonates in Archan Nair’s artistic creations. Color, energy, life are expressed with passion and spiritual enlightenment in each of his digital images. He produces eye-catching works on the computer like “Alchemy Resonance” and “Rainscape Rhythm,” the latter featured as one of the Top 10 submissions by readers on this website […]
Interview with Hyperrealist Artist Antonio Finelli
We are all getting older whether we accept it or not. There will be wrinkles, grey hairs, curved spines and many other changes to our bodies. It is life, the harsh reality, and one that Italian artist Antonio Finelli portrays in his series of drawings from the last four years. Men with flat caps, women […]