DiegoKoi  

The young self-taught artist known as DiegoKoi uses outstanding pencil technique to create hyper-realistic portraits.

Diego Fazio, also known as DiegoKoi is a young self-taught artist living in Italy. He began his career designing tattoos and perfected his photo realistic technique with hundreds of shades of chiaroscuro over a period of several years.

In his home country, he won an award in 2011 for Best New Artist and has been gaining fame and accolades every since. With art like this, it’s easy to see why.

All of DiegoKoi's work is done by pencil. He is dedicated to the creation of figure and portrait drawings giving them a great sense of the personal.  This expression comes from within each subject through sensible lines that surrounded the subject, giving rise to compact shapes and elastic form, supported by shadows and imagination.

 Zaria Forman  

The photo realistic pastel drawings of Zaria Forman, record the ever-changing beauty of regions affected by climate change.

Zaria Forman, takes up to a month to complete one of her beautiful pastel landscapes.  Through her art, the goal is to document the ever-changing beauty of regions affected by climate change.

Forman's drawings were recently used in the set design for the Netflix series, House of Cards.

Forman, from Brooklyn in New York, USA, led an Arctic expedition to the north west coast of Greenland purposely with the aim of creating art inspired by the dramatic geography.

Her mother, Rena Bass Forman, originally came up with the idea but died before her daughter could see it through, and so she promised to carry out the journey in her name.

Thompson Lake #4 25"x42", Soft Pastel on Paper, 2010

 Joe Fenton  

London-based artist Joe Fenton creates large drawings using graphite, ink and acrylics on paper over many weeks and months.  His surreal visions examine death and the meaning of life.

Joe Fenton is a London based artist that works mainly in monochrome. His large drawings are produced using graphite, ink and acrylics on paper.

Fenton's art work is influenced by many of the early surrealists. Embracing the grotesque by his employment of Hieronymus Bosch like figures that are gangly, writhing and cramped.

Fenton also uses motifs that suggest Eastern philosophy and Middle Eastern architecture whilst maintaining a feel for European Baroque and Rococo with complex frame ornamentation and plant like details. A common theme in all his works which recurs again and again is that of death and the fear of death. The fanciful and even freakish nature of his images seem to spring from the need to distance himself from the fear while at the same time acknowledging it.