Vonn Cummings Sumner 'Reliquary' Print Available

Artist: Vonn Cummings Sumner
Title: Reliquary
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 24 x 30 Inches
Edition: 25
Prices: $500

Vonn Cummings Sumner is a Los Angeles based painter and professor who transforms existential unease into luminous, gently humorous tableaux. Born in 1973, he earned a BFA at UC Davis, where Wayne Thiebaud first showed the class a Krazy Kat strip and declared George Herriman the equal of Goya; that moment sparked a lifelong obsession with the gender-fluid, brick-loving cat who now populates Sumner’s canvases.

Working in oil on panel, he layers translucent glazes over soft monochrome grounds, creating depth that feels both old master solemn and Sunday paper light. His palette shifts from desert ochres to pool water cyans, echoing the sudden time of day changes that define Herriman’s original strips. Figures are rendered with delicate modeling yet placed in absurd scenarios: Krazy wanders a forest at dusk, dons a haz-mat suit to queue outside a supermarket, or stares at a dumpster fire while clutching a single red brick. These vignettes serve as stand ins for contemporary anxieties pandemic protocols, consumer absurdity, ecological dread yet they maintain the strip’s tender optimism.

Sumner insists the paintings are not nostalgia but sideways self-portraiture; by approaching issues obliquely through an “empathetic effigy,” he avoids didactic cliché and invites viewers to laugh, wince and recognise their own bewilderment. Recent exhibitions such as Second Nature at Morton Fine Art pair Krazy with floating dollar bills, toilet-paper still lifes and protective-tape barriers, turning gallery walls into a gently surreal mirror of our collective moment. Whether teaching at Fullerton College or painting into the night, Sumner keeps the anarchic spirit of Krazy alive, proving that a century old sprite can still help us process the ever shifting world outside the window.

Luke Martin 'Constant Headache' (Red/Gold) Print Available

Artist: Luke Martin
Title: Constant Headache (Red/Gold)
Medium: Screen Print on Brushed Gold Foil
Size: 18 x 36 Inches
Edition: UNSURE
Prices: $100

Mishfit 'You Can't Take It With You' Print Available

Artist: Mishfit
Title: Growth
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: (A3) 29.7 x 42 cm
Edition: 25
Price: £65

Mishfit is the professional alias of British contemporary urban artist Mish Maudsley, who has spent over two decades merging street energy with refined studio craft. Based in Brighton, she paints luminous dreamscapes that treat drifting clouds as mirrors for human emotion, building towering sky stories in oil, acrylic and neon spray that glow like sunrise caught in mid breath. Her process layers premium pigment over gritty aerosol stains, letting thick impasto collide with transparent glazes so raw creativity remains visible beneath polished finish.

Influences range from Old Master chiaroscuro to Japanese ukiyo-e waves and retro sci-fi cinema, all filtered through a feminist lens that places strong, elegant women at the centre of alternate realities. Figures step out of candy coloured cumulus with poise and defiance, their eyes meeting the viewer as if to say transformation is possible anywhere. Themes of empowerment, escapism and shared humanity run through every canvas, inviting audiences to find common ground inside vivid wonderlands.

Mish began her career bombing walls across Europe and Australia, painting gritty alleys and major festivals from Melbourne to Upfest, before moving into gallery spaces without losing the rebellious spirit of her early paste-ups. Commissions have come from Royal Caribbean, TEDx and UK music festivals, yet she still hand finishes limited giclée prints with 24-carat gold leaf, ensuring each piece carries a personal heartbeat.

Whether exhibiting at Saatchi Art, releasing sunset inspired mini originals or live painting cloud murals on a seaside promenade, Mishfit offers a simple promise: look up, breathe deep and remember that imagination can turn any sky into a sanctuary of possibility.

Squirl 'Growth' Original Available

Artist: Squirl
Title: Growth
Medium: Framed Acrylic, Aerosol and Oil Pastel on Wood
Size: 62 x 62 cm
Edition: UNIQUE
Price: £300

 

Squirl is the working alias of artist Greg Stobbs, a British illustrator, muralist and street artist based in Canterbury. Born into an illustration dynasty his parents are the celebrated children’s book illustrators Joanna and William Stobbs he grew up surrounded by pens, paper and the smell of gouache, an environment that taught him to treat every surface as a potential story.

Stobbs began his creative life scaling walls and painting under the name Squirl, a nod to his habit of darting around urban sites like the nimble creature itself. His street pieces combine bold, black aerosol outlines with flat, candy-coloured fills, often depicting wide-eyed characters, swirling typography and playful nods to skate culture. Working without stencils, he lets drips and overspray remain, believing these raw marks record the energy of the moment and the sound of the city.

Inside the studio he shifts focus to illustration, creating magical picture-book worlds that bridge fine art and narrative design. Using ink, watercolour and digital layering, he crafts spreads where towering trees wear sneakers and small children ride comets across starlit skies. Recent titles include Don’t Ask the Dragon (Canongate, 2022) and What the Crow Saw Below (Oxford University Press, 2024), both praised for their warm palette and lyrical sense of wonder.

Whether painting a cathedral cloister in York, a post-apocalyptic skate park in Sweden, or a humble book page, Stobbs approaches each surface with the same goal: spark curiosity, spread colour and remind viewers that stories can blossom anywhere imagination takes root.

KAWS 'Elmo' Water Parade 2025 Release Details

Artist: KAWS
Title: Elmo (Water Parade 2025)
Medium: Vinyl Figure
Size: 13 cm
Edition: UNSURE
Price: $75

 

*available at 10pm EST on Monday November 3rd, 2025

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Brian Donnelly, known professionally as KAWS, is an American artist and designer born in 1974 in Jersey City, New Jersey. He studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York and began his career as a graffiti artist in the early 1990s, tagging walls, billboards, and bus shelters with his now-iconic four-letter moniker. The name “KAWS” has no specific meaning Donnelly chose it simply because he liked the way the letters looked together and how they functioned visually in graffiti compositions.

His early work involved “subvertising,” where he would alter existing advertisements by adding cartoon-like figures, often with his signature crossed-out eyes. This approach quickly gained attention and helped him build a following outside the traditional art world. KAWS later transitioned into fine art, producing paintings, sculptures, and prints that reimagine familiar pop culture characters such as Mickey Mouse, The Simpsons, and SpongeBob SquarePants, infusing them with a sense of melancholy, detachment, and subversion.

KAWS is perhaps best known for his Companion series large-scale sculptures and figures that resemble Mickey Mouse with gloved hands covering the face and Xs for eyes. These works explore themes of isolation, consumerism, and the blurred line between innocence and anxiety. His art bridges the gap between high art and commercial culture, often blurring the boundaries between the two. He has collaborated with major brands like Nike, Dior, Uniqlo, and A Bathing Ape, creating clothing, sneakers, and even cereal boxes that feature his distinctive characters.

Despite initial skepticism from the art establishment, KAWS has become one of the most influential and commercially successful artists of his generation. His work has been exhibited in major museums worldwide, including the Brooklyn Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. In 2019, his painting THE KAWS ALBUM sold at auction for $14.8 million, setting a record for the artist and solidifying his place in the contemporary art market.

Today, KAWS continues to live and work in Brooklyn, New York, producing art across multiple mediums from massive outdoor sculptures to intimate drawings always with the goal of reaching as wide an audience as possible. His practice reflects a deep belief in the power of visual communication, whether through a museum wall or the back of a cereal box.

Kukula 'Cake Room' Print Available

Artist: Kukula
Title: Cake Room
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 15 x 20 Inches
Edition: 50
Price: $450

 

Kukula, whose given name is Nataly Abramovitch, is an Israeli painter celebrated for a self coined style she calls Pop Rococo. Born in 1980 and raised in a quiet village an hour north of Tel Aviv, she grew up surrounded by Holocaust survivors whose stories of trauma mixed with her own childhood fantasies of princesses and ballet. This collision of horror and sweetness became the emotional engine of her art. She earned a degree in illustration from Vital-Shenkar in 2003 and soon relocated to the United States, where she now lives and works.

Her oil paintings centre on doll-like female figures posed with the haughty grace of eighteenth-century aristocratic portraits. Rendered in intricate layers of luminous colour, these heroines confront the viewer with direct, wide-eyed gazes while surrounded by gilded filigree, lollipops, songbirds and baroque ribbons that sometimes morph into their own skin. The ornate flourishes reference French Limoges porcelain and the decorative excess of Rococo masters such as Boucher and Fragonard, yet the flattened planes, candy palettes and subtle nods to manga give the work a contemporary pop edge.

Kukula’s creative process is intuitive. She gathers visual stimuli from haute couture runways, vintage opera costumes and independent women designers, then blends them with personal memories and symbols of feminine power. Each accessory carries possible meaning: a pearl choker may suggest innocence, while a lurking cat could hint at hidden danger. By presenting these icons within idyllic, dreamlike landscapes, she invites viewers to lose themselves in a world where beauty and melancholy, innocence and eroticism coexist in delicate balance.

Her work has appeared in solo shows from Rome to Los Angeles, and luxury labels including RED Valentino have commissioned capsule lines featuring her signature characters. Through every painting, Kukula offers an enchanted universe that resurrects the lightness of Rococo while telling modern stories of strength, identity and resilience.

Banksy 'Banksquiat' (Grey) Print Up For Auction

Artist: Banksy
Title: Banksquiat (Grey)
Medium: 2 Color Screen Print on Card
Size: 69.8 x 75 cm
Edition: 300
Price: Up For Auction

 

*one of my favorite Banksy prints is up for auction at Koller

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Banksy is a British street artist, political activist, filmmaker and absolute legend whose identity remains one of contemporary art’s most closely guarded secrets. Active since the early 1990s, he began as a freehand graffiti writer in Bristol before developing a signature style of stencilled images that combine dark humour with trenchant social commentary. His works appear overnight on walls, bridges and buildings around the world, addressing themes such as war, consumerism, surveillance and the hypocrisy of the art market itself.

Iconic pieces include Girl with a Balloon, a small child reaching towards a heart shaped balloon that has become one of the most reproduced images of the 21st century; Flower Thrower, depicting a rioter hurling a bouquet instead of a Molotov cocktail; and Devolved Parliament, a vast canvas showing chimpanzees occupying the House of Commons, which sold for over £9 million in 2019. Each image is cut from layered stencils, sprayed in high contrast black and white, then accented with selective colour to amplify the emotional punch.

Banksy’s interventions extend beyond walls. In 2015 he opened Dismaland, a temporary dystopian theme park that critiqued media spectacle while attracting international headlines. More recently he funded the Louise Michel, a rescue vessel painted hot pink that has saved hundreds of refugees crossing the Mediterranean. His works have been hacked out of walls, auctioned for millions and even shredded moments after being sold, an act that doubled the hammer price and underlined his ongoing assault on the commodification of creativity.

Despite global fame, Banksy continues to operate outside traditional systems, producing art that is free to view, impossible to ignore and instantly recognisable, proving that a single stencil can still speak louder than entire advertising budgets.

Lee Ellis 'Do You Smell That?' Original Available

Artist: Lee Ellis
Title: Do You Smell That?
Medium: Acrylic, Aerosol and Oil on Canvas
Size: 13.75 x 17.75 Inches
Edition: UNIQUE
Price: $2,015

 

Lee Ellis is a Bristol based British multi media artist whose practice thrives on restless experimentation. Born in 1985, he grew up on a diet of comic books, album sleeves and Saturday morning cartoons, influences that still pulse through his bold colour choices and graphic mark making. After studying fine art at university he spent several years in London advertising agencies, learning how to distil complex messages into single powerful images, a skill he now applies to personal work that explores identity, memory and the fragility of human connection. Working across printmaking, painting and collage, Ellis builds layered surfaces that feel simultaneously chaotic and controlled. He begins with loose charcoal sketches, then adds gestural acrylic strokes, screen printed fragments and torn paper, sanding or scraping back areas to reveal ghost images beneath. The result is a visual archaeology where past decisions peek through present marks, echoing the way personal histories linger under daily routines. His palette leans toward hot pinks, cadmium oranges and deep ultramarines, hues that vibrate against raw canvas and create an energetic push pull across each composition.

Portraits emerge from the abstract fields: faces split into geometric planes, eyes duplicated like misprinted photographs, mouths stretched into silent howls or wide grins. These features are never fixed; they shimmer and dissolve, suggesting the fluid nature of self perception in an age of constant digital reflection. Recent series such as Talking in Colour reduce figures to interlocking colour blocks, yet subtle line work hints at bone structure and emotional weight, inviting viewers to project their own narratives onto the fragmented forms.

Commercial clients including Saatchi Art, DegreeArt and Clarendon Fine Art have championed his prints, while solo exhibitions in Bristol and London regularly sell out. Despite growing demand, Ellis continues to hand pull limited editions in his studio, embracing the slight variations that make each sheet unique. Workshops and live painting events allow him to share his process, encouraging participants to embrace mistakes as creative fuel rather than flaws. Whether rendering a six foot canvas or a small monotype, Lee Ellis seeks the fragile moment when order collapses into chaos and something honest emerges, reminding us that identity is never fixed but always in flux, painted and repainted by every experience we encounter.

Mike Mitchell 'Skully III' (Desert) Print Available

Artist: Mike Mitchell
Title: Skully III (Desert)
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 8 x 8 Inches
Edition: 75
Price: $60

  

Mike Mitchell is a Los Angeles based artist whose bright, pop infused paintings and digital illustrations celebrate the power of positivity. Born in 1982 and raised in Texas, he studied graphic design at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he learned to merge bold colour theory with clean, communicative imagery. Working under the online alias Sir Mitchell, he built an early following by posting daily digital sketches that combined superhero iconography with gentle humour, a project that honed his signature style of saturated palettes, crisp outlines and optimistic themes.

Mitchell’s process begins with loose pencil sketches that are scanned and refined in Photoshop, allowing him to experiment with colour relationships and subtle texture overlays until the image radiates warmth. He then translates selected pieces into acrylic on canvas, building smooth surfaces through patient layering so that highlights appear to glow from within. Recurring motifs include blooming flowers, soaring birds and wide eyed children, all rendered in flat blocks of coral, turquoise and butter yellow that pulse against soft pastel backgrounds. His Just Keep Going series pairs uplifting phrases with minimalist landscapes, while limited edition prints sell out online within minutes, the proceeds often donated to mental health charities.

When he is not painting, Mitchell mentors emerging artists through virtual workshops, sharing techniques and encouraging them to embrace vulnerability in their work. Whether designing a mural for a children’s hospital or a small greeting card, he approaches each project with the same goal: remind viewers that beauty is abundant and hope is always within reach.

Jeff Soto 'Migration' Print Available

Artist: Jeff Soto
Title: Migration
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 16.7 x 25 Inches
Edition: 50
Price: $210

 

Jeff Soto is a Californian painter, muralist and printmaker who fuses gritty street energy with dreamlike fantasy. Born in Fullerton in 1975, he grew up skateboarding and simultaneously discovered graffiti and traditional oil painting, twin passions that still feed his work. After earning a BFA with distinction from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, he spent years travelling the globe, exhibiting in galleries from New York to Nuremberg and translating band posters into collectible art.

Soto’s distinct colour palette glows with phosphorescent greens, radioactive oranges and deep midnight blues, laid down in acrylic and aerosol. His imagery bridges pop surrealism and street art: robotic owls, blooming skulls, circuit-board forests and gentle giants stride across canvases that feel like storybook pages left in the rain. Influences range from eighties fantasy films and science-fiction paperbacks to Max Ernst and Frida Kahlo, yet the final vision is unmistakably his own.

He approaches each mural without projections, sketching loose charcoal arcs then building layers of spray and brush until walls shimmer like arcade cabinets. Gig posters for Phish, My Morning Jacket and The Flaming Lips showcase the same ethos, marrying technical screen-print precision with raw, emotional colour. A retrospective titled Potatostamp at Riverside Art Museum gathered over seventy posters and dozens of original ink drawings, celebrating fifteen years of printmaking obsession.

Today Soto balances studio work with teaching studio art at Riverside City College, mentoring the next generation while continuing to paint public walls and release limited editions that sell out in minutes. Whether rendering a six-storey endangered bee or a small talismanic print, he seeks the fragile moment when nature and technology, beauty and decay, dissolve into luminous harmony.