I’m a full-time artist and illustrator working from my studio in Suffolk on the east coast of England. I’m lucky to live in such a beautiful place. Whether I’m walking through the heathlands, fields, forests, or along the beach, my surroundings definitely inspire my work.

Faye West graduated in BA Hons Fashion Promotion and Illustration in 2005. She has since been based in both London and Devon. She has worked with Vice, The British Council, HRP Kensington Palace, Topshop, Random House and Beauty Seen PR.

Angela Holland is a mixed media and collage artist living in Santa Barbara, California. A retired educator and family therapist, Angela relishes the freedom of non-verbal expression through abstract art. Immersing herself in art classes and completing a formal mentorship with San Francisco painter Nicholas Wilton have helped develop technique and style over the past four years. Angela currently exhibits in shows and galleries in Santa Barbara.

Elusive Muse first discovered the talented illustrator Eric Smith while perusing illustration technique videos on YouTube. The video featured above prompted me to explore further by visiting Eric’s website. If you are an artist looking for inspiration, definitely watch the video.

My work consists of two different types of works. First, Pulp Paintings that are created from the pulp of handmade and colored paper.

Elusive Muse is excited to share the work of Ingrid Dee Magidson. Having personally experienced Ingrid’s work in person, we will say that the images we are sharing really can’t compare to seeing her work in person. The level of detail and rich layering is by far more astounding and magical.

Julia Geiser is a talented artist from Switzerland who uses various motifs to create surreal collages. She combines vintage images, geometrical shapes and animal motifs with fantastic results. Julia creates dreamlike worlds where people and animals are sliced up, birds exist in different dimensions, and size and shape have unusual manifestations. Her only source of materials is the Internet. In such a way she manages to transform what might be perceived as voyeurism into a creative approach, transforming gems found in the dusty corners of the Internet into vivid images uniting vintage and modern.

For me, painting is not about pursuing fame, gaining a reputation and being praised by the art critique. Painting is a personal realm, one in which to hide, to cry out and to escape. When I need to speak up, painting is my tongue; when I need to make a war, it is my spear; when I am tired and need a place to lie down, it is my shelter; and when I have committed a sin as a human, painting is my intimate confession. I choose to employ an illustrative approach to making my pictures. Narrative imagery is still needed in the contemporary world, as mythology is still alive. Mythology will always exist as long as humans continue to make art and tell stories.

Renee Robbins is a Chicago-based visual artist. She received her MFA in painting and printmaking from Michigan State University and a BFA from the University of Kentucky. She has exhibited widely, including exhibitions at Firecat Projects, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and Ann Tower Gallery. Her work has also been presented in exhibitions at the Alden B Dow Museum of Science and Art, South Bend Art Museum, Alexandria Museum, and the Kresge Art Museum. The Chicago Gallery News featured her work as a ‘Young Chicago Artist’ to watch in the May 2013 issue. The forms in her paintings have been classified by a diatom taxonomist in an artist feature on the US Diatoms database at the University of Colorado.

Rune Guneriussen, was born in Norway in 1977. He received his education from Surrey Institute of Art & Design in England. He lives and works in eastern Norway and is an artist working in the transition between installation and photography. As a conceptual artist he works site specific, primarily in nature.The work on objects started in 2005, and has been photographed on locations all over Norway.

Mauricio Planel has studied at Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Montevideo.

Daniella Woolf holds an M.A. in Textile Structures from UCLA. She is a founding partner at Wax Works West, a school for the encaustic arts in Santa Cruz, California. She is a recipient of the Gail Rich Award for Excellence in the Arts, and the Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship.She is the author of two books, Encaustic With a Textile Sensibility, The Encaustic Studio, and a curator and producer of instructional encaustic DVD’s. Her work is exhibited internationally and is in many collections and publications. She BLOGs irregularly at Encausticopolis under the name Dotty Stripes, is the Co-President of the Lucky Girls Society.

Peri Schwartz grew up in Far Rockaway, NY. She studied at Boston University’s School of Fine Arts and received an MFA at Queens College. She lives and works in New Rochelle, NY. In paintings, prints and drawings she focuses on composition and the interplay of color, light and space. Her work is in museum collections in the US and Europe.

Since graduating from Art Center College of Design, Calef Brown’s illustrations have appeared in Time, Rolling Stone, Fortune, The Atlantic, Newsweek, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Business Week, The New Yorker, GQ, Sports Illustrated, and numerous other newspapers and magazines around the country and internationally. He has created CD and book covers, murals and packaging for clients like Target Stores, Coca Cola, Adidas, Martha Stewart, Etrade, Sony Music, and Nickelodeon.

Barbara Gilhooly was born in North Dakota in 1963. She attended the University of North Dakota and received her BFA in 1986. Concentrating on printmaking and sculpture, Gilhooly earned her MFA from Colorado State University in 1989.

Gilhooly works as a professional artist and maintains an active exhibition schedule. Recently, her work was shown in Paris, New York, Colorado, and several exhibitions in the Twin Cities.