Digital artist Ilya Shkipin creates expressionist inspired portraits that feel both familiar and hauntingly transformed. His work captures snapshot moments and reshapes them through layered brushstrokes, distortion, and heavy texture.
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Double Vision Portraits by artist Alex Garant
Alex Garant creates painted portraits that immediately grab your attention through a striking visual technique: the eyes. In her Double Vision Portraits series, each subject appears to have multiple eyes layered carefully on the face. The effect is both mesmerizing and slightly disorienting, like looking through a kaleidoscope or catching a reflection in fractured glass. This signature distortion gives the paintings a surreal energy that lingers long after you first see them.
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Daughters of Diaspora by artist Ojo Agi
Canadian artist Ojo Agi explores the mixture of race, beauty ideals and as she says “The duality of growing up between two different cultures.”
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Sticky Hyperrealism Portraits by Mike Dargas
At first glance, you swear these are photographs. Perfect lighting. Flawless skin. Liquid textures so real you almost feel them stick. Then comes the second look, followed by the realization that no, these are not photos at all. They are hyperrealistic portrait paintings by German artist Mike Dargas, and they demand your full attention.
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“What I was waiting for” by Kris Lewis
Kris Lewis presents What I Was Waiting For, a series of painted portraits that feel both intimate and striking. The subjects are wide-eyed, stylish, and full of personality, capturing a sense of anticipation and quiet presence.
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Paintings by artist Antoine Cordet
Paris-based artist Antoine Cordet creates portraits that feel both familiar and elusive. His work abstracts figures with fog-like details, blending clarity and obscurity to produce images that hover between reality and imagination.
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Abstract Paintings by Gus Hughes
Gus Hughes creates abstract paintings that feel dense, physical, and quietly emotional. Heavy layers of paint build the surface, pulling the viewer in before revealing occasional familiar shapes that hint at portraiture. You start looking for faces. Sometimes you find them. Sometimes you do not.
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Paint Forms by artist Kim Keever
There is something wonderfully liberating about Kim Keever’s process. Based in New York City, the artist creates abstract works by dropping paint into water filled aquariums and letting physics take over. No sketches. No strict plans. Just color, movement, and chance. The results feel playful and unpredictable, which is exactly the point. Each piece captures a fleeting moment that can never be repeated. Paint blooms, sinks, spreads, and dissolves in real time, forming shapes that feel both organic and otherworldly. What you see is not designed in the traditional sense. It is discovered.
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Portrait Forms by Bryan Christie
Bryan Christie’s Portrait Forms turns the gaze inward. These portraits explore anatomy, biology, and the inner workings of the human body, focusing on what lies beneath the surface rather than external appearance. The result is both scientific and surprisingly personal.
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Ecotone 2014 by artist Jacob van Loon
Jacob van Loon’s Ecotone is a mixed media portrait that feels raw, deliberate, and quietly confrontational. Created as an assemblage on panel in diptych form, the work explores tension, overlap, and contrast, both visually and emotionally. It sits in that charged space between beauty and disruption, where nothing feels accidental and everything asks you to look twic
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Portraits by artist Phealls Phree
Phealls Phree’s painted portraits are striking, intimate, and unapologetically honest. Featuring women of color set against natural backdrops, the work celebrates beauty while embracing texture, imperfection, and process. These are portraits that feel lived in rather than polished for display.
