All Artists

I am a visual artist and lighting designer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I see painting as a great catharsis. Music and movement dictate what happens on my canvas. I paint until the canvas tells me it's finished.

My name is Sarah, and I am from Greeley, Colorado. Art has always helped me through dark times. I like to say I am creating color over chaos. I recently started painting again to help with postpartum anxiety.

I am a Midwestern abstract artist, exploring emotion through abstract art. I utilize mixed media to convey the complexities and intricacies of such intangible subjects.

New to the creative game but a very enthusiastic abstract artist. I love to play with shape and colour and let the paint do the talking.

Hobbyist making digital art for fun. Mostly in Mobile phone sizes and resolutions. 4 years of work

I'm an abstract painter, from Glasgow, Scotland. Most of my work is inspired by nature and the ocean.

I am a hobbyist artist working to create 'artë'. Artë excites me because it is a chance to see the world through the eyes of the artist, the opportunity to find empathy through visual narratives. I hope you find understanding through my artë and bring it back to your practice or discipline. Get in contact with me if you would like some personalized artë or just want to say hi :] -Dylan Hyman // Alan Browne

Hello, my name is Jacky! I'd love to share my abstract paintings with you!

I'm sickkid1972 everywhere I go, and I'm a middle-aged Brit who uses art to keep myself sane. I lean toward the heavily abstracted, and dramatic images, created with automatic drawing, doodling, photography and massive amounts of digital manipulation.

I'm a 29 year old engineering student from Los Angeles. In the last few years I got really into making internet memes, sparking an interest in digital art (@chrisshaffermemes on Instagram). Recently, I transitioned into digital abstract art, with an emphasis on bright color palettes and simple geometric shapes. Making art feels like therapy for me, and I hope the colors express the joy it makes me feel.

I'm Jen Kurinna, 29, from Kyiv, Ukraine. The car accident in 2016 left me paralyzed from shoulders down. As an art-therapy, I began painting with a brush in my teeth. I'm an amateur artist, exploring different ways of expressing myself. I perform acrylic on canvas, enamel on ceramics, as well as digital drawings, you can check them out on my website, Facebook or Instagram (https//:www.facebook.com/Jennkurinna, https://www.instagram.com/kurinna_jenn). I'm also directing and shooting my first short video parody, it will soon appear on YouTube and social networks.

I'm not an artist that tries to fit in any one niche. I'm not even an artist trying to convey anything. I just create for the sake of creating in hopes that someone else would enjoy what they see to.

Mississippi born and raised. Trying to show the world my art!

I’m a medical student from Baghdad, I’ve been drawing since I was a little kid, I now combine expressionism and symbolism to create my artwork, usually I draw about complex emotions, mental illnesses or sometimes I convert songs into drawings :)

Doodler + Colors + Markers + Paper = <3

My name is Will and I make generative abstract art utilising JWildfire under the alias Art Autonomy. I use Transforms and differing Flames to create pieces which resemble real life textures and lighting whilst maintaining a boundless abstract form.

Writer and artist living in Uppsala, Sweden, 40 years old. Combining mixed traditional media with digital techniques, trying to convey visual emotions.

A year ago, I had a mental breakdown.
I could not work anymore, I tried everyday to be a good employee but my mind was working against me. I went to my Doctor and he gave me a refferal for Psycyatry treatments. First thing they did for me was medications. Well that went bad, they made me worse. My depression hit an all time low, my bowels shut down. I was physycally no longer able to work.
I quit.

From then on I kept taking medication increases, it's really all my Psycyatrist had available for treatment plans. They kept me in bed for the entire Spring and Summer last year.

After the 3rd medication, I broke down. I admitted myself into the Psychiatric Ward last August. I couldn't handle the racing, intrusive, and persistent thoughts of Suicide.

I spent 2 weeks in there and really found myself again. And while I was in there, I took part in the Rec Therapy programs, and that's when I found that Painting is truly.a way for me to express, to cope. Painting became my therapy.

Now I had painted a few pieces before my hospital visit. But, it was in the hospital that I truly understood the power of my art. Now I paint every time it "feels right". It's a certain "urge" and when it hits me, I go into my basement, and into my mind.

I am blessed and very thankful for the opportunity to show my work to all of you. I apologize for picture quality, I am not a professional by any means. But I put 110% of my effort into it.

I fought my anxiety to get this far in submitting my art. I paint for my Mental Health.
My pain.
My memories.
My solace, and my piece of mind.

If you are struggling with your mental health, please....reach out. People will listen to you, I promise.

I am a retired electronics Technician, living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I am married and we have 3 sons and 2 granddaughters between us. I Love to draw and I find endless inspiration here on the East Coast.

I am a Dutch Visual Artist who is specialized in large abstract paintings. My inspiration comes from everywhere. I look at life with an open mind and see the beauty in all. I'm a creative creature who enjoys experimenting and exploring. Constantly challenging myself to create something new and unexpected. I play a lot with bold colors, movements, shapes and different tools to achieve something new and unexpected.

I am jrdsctt, a 29-year-old digital artist/photographer based out of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. My work uses abstract/surreal photo-manipulation to convey the distortion of living in a digital setting. The more technology progresses the more we live in a wireless post-cloud world. But what happens to us when we've uploaded our entire lives into a digital cloud and the cloud comes down? How much can we be broken down and glitched until we are no longer recognizably ourselves? And where is the room for privacy in this digital world? When we are so willing to upload our lives, do those in power even need to surveil us anymore? Will this digital setting create a platform to bring us together? Or divide us even more than we already are? This is where my art rests.

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My work is absolutely a reflection of all of the creativity I am unable to expel in normal, everyday life. As a slave to the “American Dream,” my paintings are truly bursting with all the pent up energy that is relieved after all the bills have been paid; an escape from reality. I use pigment and line to cultivate interesting color palettes, composition and movement. I really love that my work can be described in a million different ways depending on the viewer’s experience and how they interpret the world around them. Using floral and nature-derived subtleties, my process creates worlds with layers on layers that draw the imagination in and never let it go. If you spend time with my paintings, you’ll see they are made up of small, what I like to call, “pocket compositions” that in and of themselves are captivating, but together they create an escape.

I have been involved in art for over 30 years. Pottery making and selling for over 15 years and painting colorful abstracts for 15 years. What inspires me most every time I paint is color and how to make color work in my art balancing different colors. I am highly enthused by color creating and the final result of my art. I successfully sell art on Facebook Instagram Etsy Gallery247 and frequent exhibitions. A artist that inspires me is Jonas Gerard a amazing abstract artist and Picasso Kandinsky Leunig and many others. I enjoy creating large pieces and different techniques to keep things interesting.

I was born in Moscow before it became a part of the larger world, in 1969. I was not welcome. I grew up, more or less, and completed an Art school program in 1986. I was writing poetry and reading just about everything that I could find. I demonstrated unusually good taste at that point in my life, by re-typing other people's poetry rather than my own - mostly copies of poets then illegal in the Soviet Union. After three attempts and numerous adventures in bureaucracy, I was accepted to the Second Moscow Medical School in spite of being ethnically Jewish and characterologically an annoying know-it-all. I was told I was very lucky - a part of the intakes committee was arrested for accepting bribes that year and the rest were too dazed and confused to follow the latest quotas.

My family and I left Soviet Union as soon as we could - in 1989. At that point, we were plunging into the unknown, with no chance of return or contact with our former lives. In order to leave, we had to give up our citizenship and most of our stuff. We spent two weeks in Austria and six months in Italy, awaiting permission to enter the United States. We belonged nowhere in time or space - a unique state most people never experience. It was terrifying and exhilarating for a 19-year-old.

After arriving in the United States, I worked, and studied, and worked again. I was a medical assistant, a security guard, a computer lab assistant and tutor, and a clerk. I completed a medical assistant certificate course, a junior college, a Bachelors' degree with a major in psychology and minor in philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, and a Doctorate in clinical psychology, specializing in neuropsychology at the California School of Professional Psychology. I worked as a neuropsychologist for ten years in diagnostic testing, consulting, therapy, rehabilitation planning and teaching. It was fun! But by that time it became abundantly clear that I actually much prefer learning to knowing and asking questions to answering them. Since I was not prepared to deal with the bureaucracy of academia, the question of how to make a living by means of asking questions proved to be a tricky one.

Meanwhile, I married my boyfriend of 14 years. It was a fairy tale wedding: just the two of us in a Las Vegas chapel, with an Elvis Presley impersonator for a witness - was it reality or fiction? Anyway, it is a consensual reality - another term for a shared delusion - for us. In 2006 we had a daughter and in 2007 - a son. There is nothing more real than that. I had been drawing and dabbling in photography throughout the years, but at that point I started writing and illustrating for my children, and suddenly realized that I had something to say. I also realized that it was a natural way of making a living by means of asking questions - which seems to me to be the purpose of art. Which brings me neatly to the present day and the purpose of this webstie.

I am a UK-based artist who explores the technical detail within fine abstract drawing. Taking inspiration from traditional geometry and organic patterns, I aim to create unique arrangements of textures all in black and white.
As a self-taught artist, I enjoy varying the styles and themes of my work. You may find my artwork changes from rigid and ordered to expressive and chaotic depending on what fascinates me in the moment.

I was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, UK, in 1967. I worked as a plant breeder/laboratory technician for 14 years before a change in career to follow my childhood dream of film-making. I have worked as a cinematographer, director of lighting, editor, composer, scriptwriter, special effects technician, producer and director. Forming MoonCloud Productions in 1999, I made several short films and music videos. 2003 saw me experiment with animation and rotoscoping resulting in two films shown at the Meniscus Film Festival, A Devil’s Heaven (a collaboration with Japanese artist Ankoku Koubou Maki), and the competition entry, Atmosphere. I also made the United Nations music video Crazy World for singer Andrea Meadows in 2004.

Illness saw me withdraw from film production until 2009 when, working for WeKnowMe Productions and Patchwork Pictures, I made 12 music videos and short animated films; Storyboard: Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Black Bikini and Black Bava Sabbath are among my more notable works. My last effort for French Composer Josue Pelissier was the short film Origins. Unfortunately the pressures of production resulted in my having to again withdraw from all film work and put my fragile health first. In the last few years, I have begun to experiment with canvas and digital painting as a means to keep creatively occupied without the stresses or pressures of my chosen career. This work resulted in The Dreaming Fly series of abstract paintings – which were exhibited in Hull (UK) in 2011.

Since 2016 I have focused entirely on the digital medium, experimenting with abstracts and surrealism, sometimes combining both. My current series is called The Damned Don't Cry which was completed in December 2018. Currently i am splitting my time between a series of surreal wildlife paintings and developing a psychedelic series telling the story of Project Mercury and the first American manned space missions from the 1960's.

I am a self taught artist from Canada looking to make some mind bending abstract art.

Born in India, Kartik is an Indo-Canadian artist. He grew up in Baroda, Gujarat and Mumbai and it is there that he began his love with sketching observing his architect uncle making building plans and designs. In school his genuine nature asserted itself and Kartik started sketching portraits for which once he was awarded to make a portrait of great Mahatma Gandhi. Kartik became a management graduate instead of an artist.

He graduated in 1992 and in few years progressed in his career path to Dubai. In his professional role of Business Development Kartik travelled to several countries of Africa, Middle East, and Far East where he was exposed to the rich history, distinctive art and cultural heritage. He was inspired by the uniqueness of nature, wildlife, architectural designs and artifacts. Kartik received his Master’s in Marketing from UK in 2009 and has made Mississauga, Ontario his home since then.

Though he makes a living through his sales job, Kartik continues to live his passion for art using variety of mediums like acrylics, oil, charcoal and clay on paper & canvas. Kartik’s art shows the originality of his thoughts and notions about life. His motivation towards painting comes from his fascination to nature and the remarkable colours it generates. His forte is portraits, horses, semi-abstract and still life. Kartik’s art is displayed in several private and corporate collections.

I'm a 21 french/portuguese college student studying to be a geologist in hopes of sustaining my painting addiction.

I am a self taught painter from Canada, putting most of my focus towards abstract paintings.
I grew up in Southern Ontario and attended school to study in traditional and 3D animation. After college I moved around Canada, from Toronto to Halifax, and now back in Ontario.
People always ask me what I had in mind when I start working on a piece, or if there was any specific direction I was going with it, but when I create a painting, I just pick up the brush and see where it takes me. That's the beauty of abstract painting, you can go in with a plan or just dive in head first not knowing where things will go.

Claire Parrish is a senior at Belhaven university with a concentration in theatre and psychology. Claire is a self taught, abstract artist that focuses on shapes and bright colors. When she is not painting or working on school work, she is at her local yoga studio teaching classes or advancing on her own practice. Claire hopes to graduate from Belhaven University and move to North Carolina to peruse her masters in expressive art therapy and to continue growing and learning more about the creation of art.

I'm a self taught painter from Hungary, Europe working with watercolor and acrylic.
My pieces start spontaneously with no plan for the final artwork, I let them grow organically. At the later stages I focus on the overall composition more consciously

I am a self taught abstract artist from San Jose, California. My artwork is ambiguous and has different meanings for other people. but ultimately these pieces represent moments in my life, focusing on mental health.

While I am continuing to alter and change my technique through new pieces, most people know me for my mountain like abstract shapes with bright contrasting color pallets. To create these shapes, I start out with a blank canvas and add small globs of paint. While doing this I think about how these spots of paint are going to blend on top of each other, how they will overlap and how they will coincide together. I then take a flat tool and smooth the paint out in different directions, sometimes thinly and sometimes thick in order to create texture and more vivid colors. This enables my work to have a blending and marbling effect to it, and it also leads to some interesting shapes. My most recent work is a combination of my usual technique, while continuing to build on top of simple designs giving my work a little bit more complexity and texture. I also like to take a digital scans of some of my favorite pieces and alter them through editing software for prints. I then layer them and enhance colors to create a piece that brings together both digital and acrylic painting.

When I create a piece, I definitely don’t have a clue as to what it will turn out to be. Color is my first concern and I always go for colors that are distracting to they eye with contrasting tones and patterns. My pieces often give off chaotic and busy tones, which I think is a rendition of my life. Still, I think with a chaotic life comes resilience. People who are forced to live a life that has turned them upside down and knocked them to their knees, get the best gift of all; the ability to feel confident about overcoming anything that comes their way.

I'm a small time POP-Abstract artist, still learning and open-minded, growing. I express myself and let my mind come through me into my work. My work is mostly inspired from my daily life, events as well as the Internet.

Artist, Illustrator, Poet, sculptor, and Mostly Human
I’ve been drawing ever since I can remember, over time I began to branch out to other forms of expression, currently illustration and horror poetry.
I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto attending a specialized Art school (Wexford C.I.) before enrolling in O.C.A. (Ontario College of Art). Afterwards I went out on my own, showing where ever they’d let me.
I spent some time in Vancouver taking a Classical Animation program at (Capilano College) but after heading back to Toronto I realized Fine Art was more of a passion then making Porky Pig climb up a rope.
I’m currently living downtown in Toronto Canada pursuing my work both in writing and illustration focusing on the horror genre.

Just having fun expressing my self in colors.
Leidenschaft
Emotionen
Recreating destruction to create.

My name is Matthieu I’m a French model and artist traveling most of the time and when I’m not traveling I live in NY where I started painting and I discovered a real love for art in general. I didn’t take any class or learn from the best school, my vision of art and creativity is something you don’t learn it’s just something you do by inspiration and love.

Belgian abstract artist based in Los Angeles, California.
My work focuses on abstraction, colors, lines and movement.
Made with acrylic paints, inks, and oil pastels, all works are treated with a water and UV resistant varnish. My pieces are left untitled to leave the interpretation to the viewer.

I’m a young artist based in Colorado. I started painting to relieve stress from school as I was going through really hard times. I found that abstract work really helped and decided to continue painting. I try to put as much emotion into my pieces as I can.

I'm the owner of abstract-artwork.com and I'm glad you're here. I was born and raised in Memphis Tennessee and have had an intrest in computers and art since a young age. My favorite medium is oil paints and they were used for 3 of the images below. Art is my passion but it isn't cheap and doesn't make much money so its a hobby while I focus on a degree in Computer Science