Here we are then, our next feature bringing Philip Bosmans aka Amatic to your screen. We've been a big fan of Amatic for years, his spraycan work and character creation is so unique, we just love his style. 

Philip Bosmans was educated as a graphic designer. He is a self-taught painter and graffiti/street artist and you can see - looking at his pop surrealistic work - where his roots come from. Philip is a born draftsmen and all his dreams, wanderings and fantasy worlds first end up - in detail or more elaborated - in his sketchbook that is always close to give his creative ideas literally and figuratively a place to ´rest´. At a later stage they fuse with the paint and canvas to become art works that represent and characterize people´s dreams, grief, happiness or luck.

Philip not only creates a world he can escape in himself but also gives the spectator the possibility to disappear from daily life for a moment by looking at his works that carry a strong use of color and imagination in them. 

Besides his work with paint on canvas Bosmans makes also digital art for which he recently received international recognition by winning the prestigious Macworld UK Digital Artist of the Year Award 2011 with the work "Origin of Species".

Philip Bosmans is represented by the ARTISHOX Art Agency

You can see more work my Amatic at the following address: www.philipbosmans.be

So here it is, our fourth artist feature of the year and taking over our home page this time is Mr Tom Hartley. We asked Tom to say a few words about his work and this is what he said...

I love digital platforms for ‘art & design’ but give me a tube of poster paint and I’m one happy chappy. I mainly work in acrylic on canvas creating pieces inspired from a vast array of influence’s and continually look to progress my ideas.

I’m pretty sure my brain was split in two… one side a tidy Graphic Designer and the other just wants to splash paint around. I think this come across strongly in my work as I always endeavour to create contrast, whether it’s a comic book styled clash or just striking colours against the beauty of black paint.

Portfolio:

www.artbytmh.co.uk

Facebook:

www.facebook.com/Artbytmh

Thanks to Tom for the amazing artwork and remember people if you want to take over our home page please drop us a line at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Next on our roster of artist features comes Dikson One all the way from Chelyabinsk, Russia. Dikson One works mainly with block colours, creating highly stylised graffiti artwork. He also works on canvas for smaller pieces. You can see examples of his work, including some of his canvas work as it evolves on his Behance site:

http://www.behance.net/Evgeniy_Dikson/frame

The response to our call for submissions has been somewhat overwhelming and we'd like to say thanks to everyone who has submitted artwork to us. Please keep them coming in, it's very much appreciated. 

Welcome to the wonderful world of Nychos...

NYCHOS and the RABBITEYE MOVEMENT

Nychos became occupied with comic/cartoon drawing and sensed in which direction life would drag him pretty early! This was not usual because he comes from a traditional hunters family. At the age of six he got bitten by a wild boar in the forests of styria (south of Austria) where he spent his childhood and found inspiration in the roughness of nature. During his school education, where he became a graphic designer and through "psychic anomalies", he set free his imploring creative urge! Nychos mentions the encounter with the white rabbit. At the age of seven he was exposed to the film Watership Down. The characters and scenarios in this film have had a profound influence on him. The white rabbit has accompanied him since 2004 and since then, "they" are unstoppable! In the year 2005, the rabbit led him to create the project and streetart label "RABBIT EYE MOVEMENT"!

The rabbit eye movement is just a little part in his creative universe but a very important one for his whole development as an artist. It nourishes the idea or notion of creative destruction and the breakdown of society. “The rabbits operate outside of our system,” says Nychos, “and have no rules to follow. They just have to be smart because the whole world is their enemy. They appear whenever and wherever they want, hit and disappear". With being a Rabbit Nychos sees similarities to any underground movement especially the urban art movement. Nychos often collaborates with the world's most accomplished painters, making him one of the most noticeable breakout artists from the Austrian scene.

He is also famous for his funny way of illustrating, pretty hardcore and horrifying themes. You could see some of his work at his Soloshow "too much metal for one hand" at Pure evil gallery or on the streets of London in 2010. He’s also recently just had a feature with our friends over at VNA Magazine.

In 2011 he teamed up with several "urban Illustrators" who all have a kind of unique, weird Style. Dxtr, HrvB, Vidam, Look,Frau Isa, Rookie, The LowBrows and Nychos. Together they are "THE WEIRD". Some of his work from last year is getting published in an upcoming Worldplay Magazine issue. At the moment Nychos focuses on painting big murals all over the globe which keep him busy all year.

To see more of his work visit his blog @: rabbiteyemovement.at

...And for our next event we shall be supporting Tom J Newell and Drew Millward at Pub Scrawl, a show curated by Pete McKee. We'll be filming the whole event ready for release on our brand spanking new video part of our web site. Watch this space...