Pierre-Paul Pariseau is an illustrator from Montreal, Canada. He currently works for a wide range of international clients, while exhibiting his work worldwide. One of his works is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Avant-Garde in Mendrisio, Switzerland.

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Hello Pierre-Paul! When or how have you understood you wanted to become an artist?

I discovered I wanted to be an artist at around 25 years old, after traveling around the world.

Can you briefly say something about your technique and tell us what drives you to make art?

My passion for creativity drives me. The medium I chose is collage combined with digital manipulation.

What is the main feature that has changed in your works or practice throughout the years?

The use of a computer. To be able to work digitally, instead of using scissors and glue.

Which artist primarily inspires your work? And is there something else, outside visual arts, that keeps you motivated?

My big influence, in the beginning, was the surrealist artists like Dali, Magritte, and others. Everything that was surrealist, in painting but also literature, in poetry and movies. Photomontage pioneers also like John Heartfield, Max Ernst, and Jacques Prévert. Rapidly although I became inspired by a lot of things coming my way, in my surroundings, to a point that it is difficult to name anything in particular. I always carry with me a notebook in which I can write ideas for new images, titles of work, etc…

How would you like people to engage with your work?

To be surprised, which is like I feel when I create my images.

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Arman Khorramak, born in 1986 in Tehran, Iran, is an emerging artist in the field of visual communication. He has a Master’s degree in Visual Communication from the Islamic Azad University of Central Tehran Branch.

In 2009, he showed his works in the prestigious “Worldwide Graphic Design book” by ZEIX, gaining recognition on an international scale. His contributions to the “Vitrin book,” a compilation celebrating 35 years of contemporary Iranian book cover designs, further underscore his influence in the field.

In October 2021, he participated in a group exhibition titled “Micro-Macro” at Studio Fornaresio in Turin, Italy. His involvement in the international selection of the Luxembourg Art Prize in both 2022 and 2023 earned him certificates of recognition, affirming his place in the global art community.

In November 2023, Arman was featured as a distinguished artist in the global art exhibition “Hi, Hey! Hello.” hosted by the Dog and Bone Gallery in Brighton, England. The exhibition spanned both physical and virtual realms, underscoring Arman’s versatility in adapting to contemporary art forms and platforms.

Hue&Eye recently interviewed him to know more about how he became an artist and what drove him to make art.

Hello Arman! When or how have you understood you wanted to become an artist?

I always knew I wanted to become an artist since I was a child.

Can you briefly say something about your technique and tell us what drives you to make art?

My thesis at university was based on semiology and it helped me to find the meanings of the elements in different references. What inspires me is the silent whispers of every day that can be heard in music, literature, my dreams, and my background. As an introverted person, by making art I can talk or explain myself and my thoughts in a way that I can’t do in verbal language.

What is the main feature that has changed in your works or practice throughout the years?

I’ve paid attention to the details, elements, and the connection between them, but more than those, it has been more important to me to tell a story through the images I created.

Which artist primarily inspires your work? And is there something else, outside visual arts, that keeps you motivated?

Caravaggio. Above all music. Then cinema and literature have kept me motivated.

How would you like people to engage with your work?

Through my work, I wish people to perceive things not as they perceive them in ordinary life.

Spread the word! Do you have anything exciting on the horizon?

I have many etudes to make them into final works shortly. Despite struggling sometimes, I’m eager to go on to enjoy creating.

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Imogen Hawgood is a UK-based artist and freelance illustrator, trained in Illustration at Norwich University of the Arts. Following recent trips to California, a focus to her has been the iconography of the American West, and the idea of ‘the road’ as a symbolic landscape, dotted with roadside icons- gas stations, motels, and neon oddities.

Her interest in cinema led to a body of work focused on the neon-lit facades of Los Angeles movie theatres.

She recently explained to us more about her art and work practice.

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Hello Imogen, where are you from and where did you grow up?

I grew up in the English Countryside in the County Durham area.

When or how have you understood you wanted to become an artist?

I have always loved art, my childhood was filled with painting, drawing, and creating in any way that I could. I didn’t consider art as a serious career path until my Art Foundation course after my A-Levels when experimentation and pushing what you thought you could do became the norm. From there I went on to study illustration at Norwich University of the Arts, which is when I started experimenting with painting. After leaving university I have continued painting and honing my skills, finding inspiration from the wide streets of Los Angeles to the muddy field of British festivals.

Can you briefly say something about your technique and tell us what drives you to make art?

While I live and work in the English countryside, it was a visit to Los Angeles which has had the most influence on my work. I became fascinated by the iconography of the American West and have enjoyed translating the glowing neon of the Sunset Strip into my paintings. I’ve also found inspiration closer to home, painting the glowing lights of funfairs and food trucks across the muddy fields of British festivals.

I think my best work is based on my own experiences and memories. I take photos and videos of locations for reference and then work these ideas into oil paintings in the studio. While there is a foundation of realism within my work, I am most interested in creating an image that seems like a moment in time, highlighting the quiet beauty of the scenes that I depict.

What is the main feature that has changed in your works or practice throughout the years?

I think the main thing which has changed within my practice over the years, is a new appreciation of my immediate surroundings. While I am still drawn to the landscapes and cityscapes of Southern California, it is no longer the only subject I am painting. I have recently enjoyed painting locations that are closer to home, and more familiar to me. A recent series of paintings depicts the classic British festival experience; rain, mud, and all. I found inspiration in the way food trucks and festival stalls seemed to glow and draw us in from the darkness of the muddy fields. I think my work based on my own experiences captures a bit more authenticity.

Which artist primarily inspires your work? And is there something else, outside visual arts, that keeps you motivated?

I have always found the work of painters like Edward Hopper and David Hockney to be hugely inspiring, partly due to the shared love of Americana. I find a lot of inspiration from film and TV. I am particularly drawn by stark lighting traditionally used in Film Noir, and more contemporary takes on this genre like the neon chaos of Ridley Scott’s Neo-Noir Blade Runner.

How would you like people to engage with your work?

I would like audiences to be able to engage with my work both in person at exhibitions and galleries, as well as online via my website and social media.

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Andrew Lincoln Nelson, grown up in Laramie WY, is an artist that currently works in Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Biology, maths and artificial intelligence are his main source of inspiration, while his tool are surrealistic graphite drawings and mixed-media abstracts. His drawings are a representation of machine creatures with a background that may often resemble Arizona’s landscapes. 

He has exhibited at the University of Arizona and the Arts Speak event at the Tucson Museum of Art. His work has been used in popular/scientific presentations, including a recent TED talk, written up in The NAP Snapshot, and Artifact, the online arts journal of the University of the Arts London.

Hello Andrew. When or how have you understood you wanted to become an artist?

I have done artwork since childhood. I pursued fine art drawing for the last ten years. Before that I was working in academic research.

Can you briefly tell us about your technique and what drives you to make art?

I use traditional graphite pencil drawing techniques but the subjects of my drawings are semi-surrealistic versions of life that might exist in the future or on exp-planets. I use only hand techniques and employ only geometric and analogue calculations for composition and study. The work includes many references to the research fields of artificial life, Zeno-biology and evolutionary computation. In addition, I include an element of landscape rendering with detail level near that of the central focus of each work.

What is the main feature that has changed in your works or practice throughout the years?

Throughout the years the detail and rendering of my work has moved toward realism, with a move away from schematic line-based drawings and toward light/shadow definition, planar projection, consistent field-of-view and space-filling techniques.

Which artist primarily inspires your work? And is there something else, outside visual arts, that keeps you motivated?

Although it seems insular, I avoid studying past or contemporary art and find that I am better able to see into other worlds if I can clear my mind of current and passed ideas. This bares a slight resemblance to the concept of the beginners mind, but ultimately stems from my own inability to tell the difference between what I am seeing through my own eyes, and what I am seeing through the eyes of others. That said though… Escher, Hieronymus Bosch, H R Giger, Roger Dean were all childhood favorites.

How would you like people to engage with your work?

I like people to view my work without many preconceptions about the subject matter. The work is meant to convey a visceral impression of looking at something that is not familiar and that isn’t part of the human sphere. The feeling or sense of complexity is something like a mental flavor or an emotional experience, and my work is intended to draw that out. Also, it is my intent that the viewer speculate about the origins and purpose of the creatures in my drawings, and perhaps to take note of the austere nearly lifeless environments they inhabit. There are many concepts from biology, evolutionary theory, Zeno-biology and post-technological life embedded in my work, but I do not intend the viewers to be overtly aware of these influences per se.

Spread the word! Do you have anything exciting on the horizon?

A work of mine will be presented at the Contemporary Surrealism exhibit in Sedona Arizona. 

To follow or discover more about Andrew’s work, go here:

facebook – instagram– nelson robotics website – national arts program

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Arte Laguna Prize is an international contemporary art contest that welcomes artists of any age, country, and artistic background, without gender differences and with a free theme. The contest offers many opportunities to the participants, who can increase their network, get global visibility, and get access to precious resources to develop their careers.

With 18 years of history, the Arte Laguna Prize gives artists the opportunity to:

• Exhibit in Venice (Italy) at the Arsenale Nord;
• Win a cash prize of €10,000;
• Join a large network of collaborations around the world;
• Get free visibility;
• Sell their works on the online platform artelaguna.world;

The Prize is open to the following artistic disciplines: painting, sculpture and installation, photographic art, video art, short films, performance and acting (stage and film), digital art, digital graphics and cartoons, environmental and land art, urban art, street art, and design.

The International Jury

The jury selects the 120 artists that will exhibit at the Arsenale Nord in Venice. It is is composed of important curators and directors of museums operating in several countries, such as:

• Laura Barreca, Art Historian and Scientific Director of MUDAC Museum of Arts
• Giulia Colletti, Public Programs and Digital Sphere’s Curator at Castello di Rivoli Museo D’arte
• Contemporanea
• Krist Gruijthuijsen, Director of Kw Institute in Berlin
• David Max Horowitz, Assistant Curator at The Solomon R. Guggenheim
• Lu Peng, Academic Committee Director Of Chengdu Biennale
• Anushka Rajendran, Curator of Prameya Art Foundation
• Gonzalo Herrero Delicado, Curator, Educator and Architect

The Exhibition Venue

A symbol of the power of the “Serenissima” Republic, the Arsenale Nord of Venice is today a completely restored area. With its 4,000 square meters, the evocative spaces of the Arsenale Nord provide the ideal setting for displaying and promoting the finest creations of the contemporary art scene.

You’ll have the unique opportunity to exhibit in the iconic space of the Arsenale Nord of Venice from March 02 to April 01, 2024, during an international exhibition that welcomes more than 10 10,000 visitors each year.

The Network

Each year Arte Laguna Prize collaborates with high-level international partners to offer artists a wide range of opportunities around the world. The Special Prizes include collaborations with:

• art galleries, that will select an artist for a solo exhibition;
• art residencies in Italy and abroad, to provide artists with a multicultural and inspiring environment
• to create new works;
•  companies, to connect creativity with the productive sector;
• art festivals and exhibitions, to enhance the artists’ international visibility and create new projects;

Conditions of Participation

Applications have no restrictions and are open to all artists. The deadline is on October 26, 2023.

Fine their Terms & Conditions here.

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Alice Hoffmann aka Bureau Alice is currently base in Zurich, Switzerland.

She started her illustration career in international agencies as an art and creative director. What she enjoys about illustration is the possibility to comunicate with any language worldwide with a single image that is understood by everyone.

 

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Analog vs Digital

Alice begins her work analogously and finishes it digitally. Paper and pen are her most important work utensils. Aftre completing it by hand, she transfers to digital illustration by researching the perfect color codes in Adobe Illustration. Alice asks herelf these questions: Which combination supports the theme of the motif? Which color does the object reinterpret?
She finds inspiration for her colourful and expressive works exploring the art and culture of other countries.
Alice portfolio is full of patterns, animal and nature motifs, alongside children’s and lifestyle illustrations. All motifs combine her graphic style, an independent mixture of retro and modern, minimalistic and expressive.

 

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