Mike Mitchell 'Fat Bastard' Nov 2 Available

Artist: Mike Mitchell
Title: Fat Bastard Nov 2
Medium: Giclee Print on Giclee Print
Size: 8 x 10 Inches
Edition: UNIQUE
Price: $300

 

Ricky Byrne 'Lost Without You' Prints Available

Artist: Ricky Byrne
Title: Lost Without You (Blue+Navy Blue)
Medium: Hand Embellished 2 Color Prints
Size: 30 x 30 cm Each
Edition: 10 Each
Price: £95 Each

 

*also available in red+fluoro and green+pale green colors

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Ricky Byrne was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1983 and grew up between the Atlantic surf and the flat topped silhouette of Table Mountain. That coastal light and urban edge still feed the abstract cityscapes and seascapes he now paints from his studio in Woodstock, a district where Victorian warehouses rub shoulders with street art and weekend food markets. Byrne trained as a graphic designer at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, a discipline that taught him to reduce complex scenes to essential shapes and bold colour relationships, skills he now applies to fine art with oil, acrylic and aerosol on canvas, wood and reclaimed billboard paper.

His process begins with photographs taken during dawn walks along the promenade or twilight drives through the city bowl. Back in the studio he distils these images into interlocking planes of ultramarine, cadmium orange, titanium white and raw umber, allowing drips and spray mist to remain as evidence of speed and movement. Horizon lines tilt, shadows slide across facades and waves crest in simplified curves that suggest sound and spray without describing every ripple. The result is a body of work that feels simultaneously familiar and dreamlike, a memory of a place rather than a map of it.

Exhibitions at the Lovell Gallery in Cape Town, group shows in Johannesburg and art fairs along the Garden Route have met strong sales, while international collectors visiting the city often leave with rolled canvases tucked under their arms. Despite growing demand, Byrne continues to surf at sunrise, sketch on restaurant napkins and donate prints to local charity auctions, believing that creativity should remain as fluid as the tides that shape his hometown.

Jerome Masi 'Look On The Bright Side' Print Available

Artist: Jerome Masi
Title: Look On The Broght Side (Fluorescent Red)
Medium: 1 Color Screen Print
Size: 3x (A5) 14.8 x 21 cm Each
Edition: UNSURE
Price: €75

 

Jerome Masi is a French painter and printmaker whose bold, reductive style turns complex ideas into instantly readable images. Born in 1970 and raised in the Alpine city of Grenoble, he studied graphic arts before moving to Paris, where advertising posters, metro tiles and punk flyers taught him that a single shape can carry emotional weight. Working primarily with acrylic and screen print, he builds compositions from flat colour blocks and crisp silhouettes, often limiting himself to three hues so that every line must justify its existence.

His process is both methodical and intuitive. Masi begins with loose charcoal sketches, refining forms until a figure, animal or object emerges with the clarity of a road sign. He then cuts rubylith stencils by hand, preserving the small imperfections that reveal the artist’s touch. Layers of ink are pushed through mesh onto handmade paper or raw canvas, creating surfaces that hum with saturated reds, cobalt blues and sunflower yellows. Negative space plays a crucial role; untouched areas become light, wind or sound, inviting viewers to complete the story.

Recent series explore memory and migration, presenting solitary travellers wrapped in geometric cloaks that echo both safety blankets and national flags. Exhibitions at Galerie Issue in Paris, group shows in Berlin and art fairs across Europe have sold out, while commercial commissions have brightened hospital corridors and independent magazines alike.

Whether printing a pocket sized poster or painting a three metre canvas, Masi seeks the fragile moment when simplicity reveals complexity, proving that elegance born from restraint can speak across languages and cultures.

Mark Wallinger 'Proteus XVIII' Print Available

Artist: Mark Wallinger
Title: Proteus XVIII
Medium: Framed Giclee Print
Size: 68.5 x 93 cm
Edition: 25
Price: $1,750

 

Mark Wallinger 'Proteus XIV' Print Available

Artist: Mark Wallinger
Title: Proteus XIV
Medium: Framed Giclee Print
Size: 68.5 x 93 cm
Edition: 25
Price: $1,750

  

Mark Wallinger 'Proteus IX' Print Available

Artist: Mark Wallinger
Title: Proteus IX
Medium: Framed Giclee Print
Size: 68.5 x 93 cm
Edition: 25
Price: $1,750

 

Mark Wallinger 'Proteus VI' Print Available

Artist: Mark Wallinger
Title: Proteus VI
Medium: Framed Giclee Print
Size: 68.5 x 93 cm
Edition: 25
Price: $1,750

  

Mark Wallinger is a British contemporary artist born in 1959 in Chigwell, Essex, celebrated for works that probe identity, nationhood and belief through poetic wit and conceptual rigour. After studying at the Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths, he first gained notice in the 1980s with paintings that inserted humble racehorses into Old Master compositions, questioning ideas of value, lineage and spectacle. This fascination with overlooked symbols continued in A Real Work of Art (1994), for which he bought and raced a horse named after the piece, blurring the boundary between artwork and living creature.

In 2007 Wallinger won the Turner Prize for State Britain, a meticulous recreation of Brian Haw’s protest camp outside Parliament, complete with banners, banners and slogans. Installed in Tate Britain, the work transformed a site of dissent into a haunting monument to free speech and civil liberty. Equally powerful is Ecce Homo (1999), a marble resin figure of Christ placed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, its diminutive scale and exposed vulnerability confronting imperial grandeur and inviting reflection on power, compassion and public space.

Religious and philosophical inquiry runs throughout his practice. Labyrinth (2013) comprises 270 enamel plaques installed across the London Underground, each bearing a red maze that invites contemplation amid commuter rush. The World Turned Upside Down (2019) presents a giant globe with the South Pole at the top, challenging viewers to reconsider familiar perspectives and the constructs that govern perception.

Wallinger works across media, from film and sculpture to installation and text, always seeking the poetic moment when concept and material align. Whether filming himself walking a white line through Jerusalem or casting his own shadow in bronze, he invites viewers to question certainties and to recognise the complex, often contradictory forces that shape contemporary life.

Hera 'The World Needs All The Super-Heroes It Can Get' Print Available

Artist: Hera
Title: The World Needs All The Super-Heroes It Can Get
Medium: 3 Color Lithograph
Size: 24 x 30 Inches
Edition: 100
Price: €570

 

Hera is the public alias of Jasmin Siddiqui, the Frankfurt-raised half of German streetart duo Herakut. Born in 1981 to a Pakistani-German family, she grew up between two languages and cultural codes, an experience that feeds her image-making today. While studying art therapy she began painting walls with fellow student Akut, forming Herakut in 2002 and quickly gaining notice for their dreamlike murals that merge her gestural drawing with his photorealistic spray technique.

Hera’s role centres on storytelling. She sketches loose, expressive figures in charcoal or watered-down acrylic, allowing drips and splashes to remain as emotional evidence. Giant children, weary elephants and cloaked storytellers stare out from brick façades, their eyes often half closed as if weighed down by unseen burdens. Around these protagonists she writes short poetic lines in English or German, fragmentary thoughts on innocence, exile and resilience that invite passers-by to pause and complete the narrative.

Her palette is muted yet tender: dusty roses, bruised purples and moonlit blues swirl together, creating atmospheres that feel both comforting and unsettling. She applies paint with brushes, rags and fingers, leaving fingerprints and gritty brush marks visible, proof that the wall is alive and breathing.

When not travelling for festivals or commissions, Hera works in the studio on canvas and paper pieces, often layering old children’s book pages beneath translucent washes, embedding forgotten stories into new ones. Through every image she offers a gentle reminder: vulnerability is not weakness, but a bridge that connects disparate lives across concrete and language.

Nathan Bowen 'Basquiat + Warhol' Original Available

Artist: Nathan Bowen
Title: Basquiat + Warhol
Medium: Ink + Pen on Paper
Size: 42 x 60 cm
Edition: UNIQUE
Price: £300

 

Nathan Bowen is a British street artist whose raw, expressive style brings urgency and dark humour to city walls across London and beyond. Born in 1982 and raised in Deptford, he began drawing on whatever surfaces he could find, developing a compulsive need to mark public space that continues to drive his daily practice. Working primarily with black acrylic and chunky charcoal sticks, he creates frantic figures that seem to claw their way out of brickwork, their wide eyes and gaping mouths suggesting both protest and despair.

His process is immediate and instinctive. Carrying paint and brushes in a backpack, Bowen approaches walls with no preliminary sketches, allowing the texture, cracks and graffiti beneath to guide each stroke. This spontaneity results in images that feel alive, as if the characters might shuffle or scream at any moment. Recurring motifs include skeletal birds, distorted clowns and suited men with melting faces, all rendered with aggressive mark-making that leaves drips and splatters as evidence of speed and emotion.

Beyond murals, Bowen produces smaller works on found wood and cardboard, often incorporating torn adverts, rusted metal and shattered glass to amplify themes of urban decay and resilience. He also stages “live attacks,” painting rapidly while interacting with passers-by, turning the act of creation into a public performance that challenges perceptions of vandalism and art.

Despite brushes with authority, he remains committed to unauthorised work, believing the street offers the most honest dialogue with society. Through every frantic figure and smeared grin, Nathan Bowen invites viewers to confront the chaos of modern life and to find catharsis in the act of rebellion.

Karma Phuntsok 'Invocations Of Buddha' Print Available

Artist: Karma Phuntsok
Title: Invocations Of Buddha
Medium: Multi Color Screen Print
Size: 18 x 24 Inches
Edition: UNSURE
Price: $65

 

Karma Phuntsok is a Tibetan painter whose life and art form a bridge between ancient Buddhist tradition and contemporary global expression. Born in Lhasa in 1952, he fled the Chinese invasion as a child, crossing the Himalayas to reach refugee schools in India where monks first taught him thangka painting, the meticulous scroll art used for meditation and teaching. Years of copying iconometric grids gave him flawless brush control, yet his restless curiosity pushed him toward new colours, perspectives and subjects.

Working now from a bright studio near Dharamshala, he layers mineral pigments and 24 carat gold over hand woven cotton, building luminous surfaces that glow like sunrise over the plateau. Traditional deities sit beside astronauts, motorbikes and city skylines, symbols that speak to exile, modern identity and the resilience of culture in diaspora. Lotus blossoms float above subway cars, suggesting that compassion can travel any route.

Collectors worldwide prize his pieces for their technical mastery and emotional clarity. Proceeds support refugee education, allowing young Tibetans to study art and language. Workshops in Europe and North America invite students to grind malachite, mix egg tempera and feel the calm focus required to outline a single lotus petal.

Through every stroke Karma insists that heritage is not a museum piece but a living conversation, one that welcomes new voices while honouring ancient lineages. His canvases remind viewers that beauty born from displacement can still point toward home, painted in gold, sky blue and the steady pulse of hope.