Sinuous Stitch

Rachel Wright: Highly detailed work, stirring the emotions, beautiful light cascading down a rocky cliff side, surely the work of oil, pastel or graphic but not in this case. Rachel's stunning landscapes are the product of thread and talent, looking at her images it's...

Ball Point Only

Paulus Architect: One blue ball point pen and a piece of paper, that is all that Paulus Architect needs to create some of the most stunning and detailed work you will ever see. Using a monochrome palette, it’s hard to believe the detail that can be rendered onto an...

Death of an Orient Express

Andre Joosse: The Orient Express is shrouded in mystery and adventure, mention its name and images of men in linen suits and ladies in beautiful dresses dabbing sweat from their brow comes to mind. This is one of the original Orient Express trains, the name still...

What Time Creates

Anastasia Pottinger: Anastasia was approached by a 101 year old lady, this lady wanted to be photographed in the nude. The only condition was that she couldn’t be identified from the images and this was the germination for a photographic series and book. The...

Supernatural.

Matt Emmett Looking like something from an alien landscape, Matt assures me that these scenes are from earth bound locations. Matt is an urban explorer, and urban explorers gain great pleasure from pushing boundaries, sometimes quite literally. He is always searching...

Vivid Stitch

Vera Shimunia Explosive brush strokes and contrasting hues of colour, light and shade radiate from the canvas, but these are not oil paints, these are the vibrant and extremely skilful work of embroidery artist Vera Shimunia. Sometimes called embroidery painting due...

Vivid Stitch

by brightnation | May 22, 2021 | Textiles

Vera Shimunia Explosive brush strokes and contrasting hues of colour, light and shade radiate from the canvas, but these are not oil paints, these...

Alien Species

by brightnation | May 18, 2021 | Photography

Josh Dykgraaf Is it a creature or is it a plant, well its neither. Melbourne based artist Josh Dykgraaf stitches petals and leaves, bark and...

Hauntingly Beautiful

by brightnation | May 12, 2021 | Photography

Nicolas Bruno Sleep paralysis is a very real condition, trapped somewhere between sleep and consciousness, a person can experience vivid and...

Mirror Man

by brightnation | May 6, 2021 | Sculpture

Rob Mulholland You suddenly catch a glimpse of a figure, you look again, it’s gone. Then another figure appears but slowly fades away. Have you...

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Alien Species

by brightnation | May 18, 2021 | Photography

Josh Dykgraaf Is it a creature or is it a plant, well its neither. Melbourne based artist Josh Dykgraaf stitches petals and leaves, bark and textures into fantastical creatures. This is all done with the help of Photoshop. Some of the creations can take over 50 hours...