Bold colors and abstract shapes play a big part of Robescu’s work, with her powerful imagery constructed by using anything from markers to acrylics, pencils and ink, and sometimes even her bare hands (making the whole process a very personal one).

According to Robescu, her creativity is rooted in her upbringing. Based in Barcelona, she grew up in a family of artists and took part in her first group exhibition at only 12 years old. “I started as a kid with drawing and painting, and even tried piano for a while,” she recalled in an interview with Adobe’s online magazine. “Then I went to university to study interior architecture, and with a lot of support and guidance from my partner, Andrei Robu, I ended up doing what I do today.”

According to Robescu her mixed media practice was shaped after coming to terms with the fact that architecture was not her vocation, and returning to her more artistic roots.

These days, Robescu’s energetic illustrations attract various global brands and publications, including Sephora and a commission from the Major League Baseball Assembly.

The post Andreea Robescu’s Collage Art is Loud and in Charge appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Born in 1979 and having graduated in 2007 from the Utrecht school of The Art (NL), with a degree in 3D Product Design, Donkelaar had a passion for all things nature from an early age.

Her creative process begins with secondhand books and walks in the forest, meadows, and flower markets of Utrecht. “I don’t start with an idea in my head or a sketch on paper,” she admitted in an interview with Flower Magazine. “I follow the flowers and the colors I’m working with.”

Her finds, and therefore, her materials, might include a damaged butterfly, a broken twig, a bumblebee, and some strangely grown weeds. The pieces themselves lead her work, inspiring her compositions and themes. By protecting her finds under glass, Donkelaar hopes to inspire other people to make up their own stories about them, rather than dictating her message herself.

“I love a flower with really long legs,” she notes. “It makes it more elegant somehow, almost as if it’s flying. I strip away all the leaves and let the flower stand out, stand tall.” Under her hands, weeds become poetry, nature seems to float mid-air, and a discarded twig finds new meaning.

The post The Song of Flowers: Anne ten Donkelaar’s Art Blossoms appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

The result has a tongue-in-cheek quality to it that has gained attention over the years, with institutions as big as the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and Museum of Modern Art, all collecting his pieces.

But at least according to Wagner, his material of choice was discovered by mere chance. “While I was living in Brooklyn in 1999, I was making a lot of collage out of a lot of different materials,” he recalled in an interview with Topic. After first experimenting with cigarette packets, he decided to look for other familiar imagery. “I hit on the dollar bill,” he explains. “It’s the most common piece of paper, literally, in the world. When I started using it, I was just using it because it was common. And then I realized that I could bend the subject matter of the work to address what it held for people.”

Treating collage not as a verb more than a noun, Wagner defines the cutting-and-gluing technique as one of the simpler creative impulses. “Simpler than the impulse to generate a fully new thing is the impulse to alter what exists,” he writes on his website. “The world can be different, and I will make it so like this and like this.”

Making each of his pieces costs money but not as much as you’d think, and Wagner estimates that a 30 by 40 inches piece costs less than $100. “People always think that it’s expensive, but it’s not in the long run,” he notes. “I use up most of the bill. A piece might look like it has a whole lot of dollars gone into it, because it has 300 heads on it, or 1,000 heads on it, but that’s just that one little piece of paper from the middle, and the rest of those bills are being used in other works.”

Scroll down to see some of his more incredible collage pieces.

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“Usually, I’m attracted to things that are in my daily space or in my neighborhood,” he relayed in an interview with artnet. “Things I see when I’m walking around. I pay attention to everything, from store windows to people in cafes talking, to people on the corner communicating. I like to think about the surroundings as source materials.”

He then translates his cultural impressions into colorful artworks, with mediums of choice spanning from painting, collage, and sculptures, to performances and video and sound installations. According to his bio, Adams practice is rooted in deconstructivist philosophies related to the fragmentation and manipulation of structure and surface, and the marriage of complex and improbable forms.

“When I’m around people, I’m constantly looking at the aesthetics of how they wear their hair, how they communicate with each other,” he notes. “I believe that, as black people, there are things we do, things that are common practice, that are also very complex and interesting forms of culture and cultural production.”

Take a look at some of his layered art pieces in the gallery below, and follow his Instagram for more.

The post Derrick Adams’ Artwork Celebrates Diversity appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“I always want to try and take people out of their current space or mindset and put them somewhere new,” said Feighan in an interview with the Urban Outfitters blog. “I want my work to feel familiar, but fresh and a bit strange. When I started making this artwork I used to say that I was trying to create a world that I would like to live in.”

“I feel the most inspired by music,” he went on to say, mentioning mid 60s-early 70s music, and specifically Brian Wilson (the Beach Boys co-founder). “I’m also into tapestries and weavings from central and South America, that’s been inspiring a lot of my color and design lately,” he notes.

“The biggest lesson I think I’ve learned is just to trust my own ideas and concepts and to work as hard as I can to execute them,” says Feighan. “It’s easy to get caught up in what everyone else is doing and it’s always important to remember to come back to your own concepts.”

Step inside his tropical landscapes:

The post Take Comfort In Ted Feighan’s Tropical Art appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Her first widely-known series of collages took off in 2010. Since then, Hoeckel has been hard at work. Over the past 5 years, her collages have been exhibited around the world and published in many prestigious books and magazines, with a variety of clients that include Rookie, Domino, and The New York Times. 

“The one disadvantage of collage is that sometimes the papers are very old, and can disintegrate or tear easily,” says Hoeckel in an interview with Frankie Magazine. “The advantages are that the colors and quality of the paper are very beautiful, they are simply not made that way anymore.”

“I think a lot of it is about losing touch with reality in a good way”, she added, explaining the running themes throughout her work. “I have several different projects going at once, but within each one there is usually an unintentional theme. For example- my point of view collage series is about people interacting and reacting to the power of nature as well as getting lost in a daydream.”

Get lost in some of her daydreams:

The post Beth Hoeckel’s Collages Form Dreamlike Landscapes appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“I’ve been making pictures and art for as long as I can remember, but I guess I started pursuing it as a career after I left school […] and did a degree in Illustration at the University of Brighton,” shared the Bristol-based artist with Visual Melt. “I feel very privileged in that I’ve always known what I wanted to do (make art) and so I have been working towards it all my life. Even though I studied Illustration and still work a lot as an Illustrator, I tend to classify myself as an artist and maker.”

Play is an essential part of his artistic process. “Making art is one of the funnest things I can imagine, and that is mainly due to how much play can be introduced into art making,” he says. “It can be very easy to slip into a routine or a method of working that’s comfortable and reliable (something I’m very guilty of at times). Having as much play with a project as possible can usually produce outcomes you wouldn’t have thought of otherwise.”

When he’s not playing with his art-making, Cheverton loves to read comics, listen to jazz, and watch Star Trek. “For the past twelve years or so I’ve had a very strong interest in Jazz music and so I made a lot of work about that, and I was largely inspired by jazz as a student,” he adds. “More recently, I realised what intrigued me the most was the really free, improvised and expressive aspects of the music itself, rather than the style or visual representation of it. This has kind of evolved into me being more interested in making work about these abstracted ideas, and in a very roundabout way led me into becoming obsessed with wonders of space exploration.”

Enter his child-like worlds in the gallery below.

The post Ed Cheverton Rediscovers the Lost Paradise of Childhood appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

The New York-based artist has a rich artistic background having studied at Boston University’s School of Fine Art (Boston) and Parsons School of Design (NYC) where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration.

With clients that include top tier publications like Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Le Monde, her work has garnered awards from The Society of Publication Design, American Illustration, and Communication Arts. 

Talking about her transitioning from illustration to collage art, she told Metal Magazine: “I was studying and got my degree in Illustration so the transition from school to the world of freelance illustration was somewhat seamless. At least I can say that now, because it was such a long time ago that I’ve forgotten all the trials and tribulations.”

“I spent many years painting and drawing and occasionally collaging but I must say I didn’t throw myself into collage until a few years ago, well into my two decades of being a working artist,” she stated. “So no, I didn’t do much collage of any kind while in school. It is still relatively young and new in my oeuvre.”

“I take inspiration from whatever I can,” added Goodman, stating that amongst the many things that inspire her are art in museums, people on the street, the actual street itself, stuff in thrift shops, plant life outside her and: “really whatever I see around me, I don’t discriminate.”

Peek into her cabinet of curiosities.

The post Fall Down the Rabbit Hole with Johanna Goodman’s Collage Art appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Describing her process as “nature meets scissors,” her tangible compositions are made by either following the natural shapes of the materials laid in front of her, or by carefully snipping some odds and ends, creating that seemingly perfect geometric shape.

“As far as how I find materials to experiment with, it varies a lot,” she explained in an interview with Colossal. “I generally work with what I can find around the house, inside or out. It begins as a scavenger hunt of sorts, and then a challenge as I begin to build.”

Finding “beauty in imperfection,” Meyer’s Instagram page is one you’ll definitely enjoy following. An oddly soothing experience in your otherwise hectic feed.

The post This Artist Creates Order Out of Chaos appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“I try to keep a variety of large colored paper that I tape against the wall as a backdrop,” she told Ape on the Moon, sharing her artistic process. “The perspective of my shot depends on the sketch, so there’s always a period of readjusting paper pieces, lights, and umbrella defusers to find the predetermined angle and focal point. Once I’ve found the sweet spot, I’ll shoot with my Canon Rebel T3. Then for curiosity’s sake, I’ll shoot with the lights hitting a different angle.”

“It may seem like a lot of time and energy for one illustration but it feels like play. There’s so much opportunity to get your mind off of things and forget about your surroundings,” she adds.

With clients that include the Philadelphia Magazine, Manifest, and The New York Times, and a small following on Instagram, her hard work seems to have paid off.

Enjoy some of our favorites:

The post Angela Rio’s Paper Art is a Blend of Illustrations With Collages appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Bold colors and abstract shapes play a big part of Robescu’s work, with her powerful imagery constructed by using anything from markers to acrylics, pencils and ink, and sometimes even her bare hands (making the whole process a very personal one).

According to Robescu, her creativity is rooted in her upbringing. Based in Barcelona, she grew up in a family of artists and took part in her first group exhibition at only 12 years old. “I started as a kid with drawing and painting, and even tried piano for a while,” she recalled in an interview with Adobe’s online magazine. “Then I went to university to study interior architecture, and with a lot of support and guidance from my partner, Andrei Robu, I ended up doing what I do today.”

According to Robescu her mixed media practice was shaped after coming to terms with the fact that architecture was not her vocation, and returning to her more artistic roots.

These days, Robescu’s energetic illustrations attract various global brands and publications, including Sephora and a commission from the Major League Baseball Assembly.

The post Andreea Robescu’s Collage Art is Loud and in Charge appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Born in 1979 and having graduated in 2007 from the Utrecht school of The Art (NL), with a degree in 3D Product Design, Donkelaar had a passion for all things nature from an early age.

Her creative process begins with secondhand books and walks in the forest, meadows, and flower markets of Utrecht. “I don’t start with an idea in my head or a sketch on paper,” she admitted in an interview with Flower Magazine. “I follow the flowers and the colors I’m working with.”

Her finds, and therefore, her materials, might include a damaged butterfly, a broken twig, a bumblebee, and some strangely grown weeds. The pieces themselves lead her work, inspiring her compositions and themes. By protecting her finds under glass, Donkelaar hopes to inspire other people to make up their own stories about them, rather than dictating her message herself.

“I love a flower with really long legs,” she notes. “It makes it more elegant somehow, almost as if it’s flying. I strip away all the leaves and let the flower stand out, stand tall.” Under her hands, weeds become poetry, nature seems to float mid-air, and a discarded twig finds new meaning.

The post The Song of Flowers: Anne ten Donkelaar’s Art Blossoms appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

The result has a tongue-in-cheek quality to it that has gained attention over the years, with institutions as big as the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and Museum of Modern Art, all collecting his pieces.

But at least according to Wagner, his material of choice was discovered by mere chance. “While I was living in Brooklyn in 1999, I was making a lot of collage out of a lot of different materials,” he recalled in an interview with Topic. After first experimenting with cigarette packets, he decided to look for other familiar imagery. “I hit on the dollar bill,” he explains. “It’s the most common piece of paper, literally, in the world. When I started using it, I was just using it because it was common. And then I realized that I could bend the subject matter of the work to address what it held for people.”

Treating collage not as a verb more than a noun, Wagner defines the cutting-and-gluing technique as one of the simpler creative impulses. “Simpler than the impulse to generate a fully new thing is the impulse to alter what exists,” he writes on his website. “The world can be different, and I will make it so like this and like this.”

Making each of his pieces costs money but not as much as you’d think, and Wagner estimates that a 30 by 40 inches piece costs less than $100. “People always think that it’s expensive, but it’s not in the long run,” he notes. “I use up most of the bill. A piece might look like it has a whole lot of dollars gone into it, because it has 300 heads on it, or 1,000 heads on it, but that’s just that one little piece of paper from the middle, and the rest of those bills are being used in other works.”

Scroll down to see some of his more incredible collage pieces.

The post Mark Wagner Treats Money as Art Material appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“Usually, I’m attracted to things that are in my daily space or in my neighborhood,” he relayed in an interview with artnet. “Things I see when I’m walking around. I pay attention to everything, from store windows to people in cafes talking, to people on the corner communicating. I like to think about the surroundings as source materials.”

He then translates his cultural impressions into colorful artworks, with mediums of choice spanning from painting, collage, and sculptures, to performances and video and sound installations. According to his bio, Adams practice is rooted in deconstructivist philosophies related to the fragmentation and manipulation of structure and surface, and the marriage of complex and improbable forms.

“When I’m around people, I’m constantly looking at the aesthetics of how they wear their hair, how they communicate with each other,” he notes. “I believe that, as black people, there are things we do, things that are common practice, that are also very complex and interesting forms of culture and cultural production.”

Take a look at some of his layered art pieces in the gallery below, and follow his Instagram for more.

The post Derrick Adams’ Artwork Celebrates Diversity appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“I always want to try and take people out of their current space or mindset and put them somewhere new,” said Feighan in an interview with the Urban Outfitters blog. “I want my work to feel familiar, but fresh and a bit strange. When I started making this artwork I used to say that I was trying to create a world that I would like to live in.”

“I feel the most inspired by music,” he went on to say, mentioning mid 60s-early 70s music, and specifically Brian Wilson (the Beach Boys co-founder). “I’m also into tapestries and weavings from central and South America, that’s been inspiring a lot of my color and design lately,” he notes.

“The biggest lesson I think I’ve learned is just to trust my own ideas and concepts and to work as hard as I can to execute them,” says Feighan. “It’s easy to get caught up in what everyone else is doing and it’s always important to remember to come back to your own concepts.”

Step inside his tropical landscapes:

The post Take Comfort In Ted Feighan’s Tropical Art appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Her first widely-known series of collages took off in 2010. Since then, Hoeckel has been hard at work. Over the past 5 years, her collages have been exhibited around the world and published in many prestigious books and magazines, with a variety of clients that include Rookie, Domino, and The New York Times. 

“The one disadvantage of collage is that sometimes the papers are very old, and can disintegrate or tear easily,” says Hoeckel in an interview with Frankie Magazine. “The advantages are that the colors and quality of the paper are very beautiful, they are simply not made that way anymore.”

“I think a lot of it is about losing touch with reality in a good way”, she added, explaining the running themes throughout her work. “I have several different projects going at once, but within each one there is usually an unintentional theme. For example- my point of view collage series is about people interacting and reacting to the power of nature as well as getting lost in a daydream.”

Get lost in some of her daydreams:

The post Beth Hoeckel’s Collages Form Dreamlike Landscapes appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“I’ve been making pictures and art for as long as I can remember, but I guess I started pursuing it as a career after I left school […] and did a degree in Illustration at the University of Brighton,” shared the Bristol-based artist with Visual Melt. “I feel very privileged in that I’ve always known what I wanted to do (make art) and so I have been working towards it all my life. Even though I studied Illustration and still work a lot as an Illustrator, I tend to classify myself as an artist and maker.”

Play is an essential part of his artistic process. “Making art is one of the funnest things I can imagine, and that is mainly due to how much play can be introduced into art making,” he says. “It can be very easy to slip into a routine or a method of working that’s comfortable and reliable (something I’m very guilty of at times). Having as much play with a project as possible can usually produce outcomes you wouldn’t have thought of otherwise.”

When he’s not playing with his art-making, Cheverton loves to read comics, listen to jazz, and watch Star Trek. “For the past twelve years or so I’ve had a very strong interest in Jazz music and so I made a lot of work about that, and I was largely inspired by jazz as a student,” he adds. “More recently, I realised what intrigued me the most was the really free, improvised and expressive aspects of the music itself, rather than the style or visual representation of it. This has kind of evolved into me being more interested in making work about these abstracted ideas, and in a very roundabout way led me into becoming obsessed with wonders of space exploration.”

Enter his child-like worlds in the gallery below.

The post Ed Cheverton Rediscovers the Lost Paradise of Childhood appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

The New York-based artist has a rich artistic background having studied at Boston University’s School of Fine Art (Boston) and Parsons School of Design (NYC) where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration.

With clients that include top tier publications like Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Le Monde, her work has garnered awards from The Society of Publication Design, American Illustration, and Communication Arts. 

Talking about her transitioning from illustration to collage art, she told Metal Magazine: “I was studying and got my degree in Illustration so the transition from school to the world of freelance illustration was somewhat seamless. At least I can say that now, because it was such a long time ago that I’ve forgotten all the trials and tribulations.”

“I spent many years painting and drawing and occasionally collaging but I must say I didn’t throw myself into collage until a few years ago, well into my two decades of being a working artist,” she stated. “So no, I didn’t do much collage of any kind while in school. It is still relatively young and new in my oeuvre.”

“I take inspiration from whatever I can,” added Goodman, stating that amongst the many things that inspire her are art in museums, people on the street, the actual street itself, stuff in thrift shops, plant life outside her and: “really whatever I see around me, I don’t discriminate.”

Peek into her cabinet of curiosities.

The post Fall Down the Rabbit Hole with Johanna Goodman’s Collage Art appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

Describing her process as “nature meets scissors,” her tangible compositions are made by either following the natural shapes of the materials laid in front of her, or by carefully snipping some odds and ends, creating that seemingly perfect geometric shape.

“As far as how I find materials to experiment with, it varies a lot,” she explained in an interview with Colossal. “I generally work with what I can find around the house, inside or out. It begins as a scavenger hunt of sorts, and then a challenge as I begin to build.”

Finding “beauty in imperfection,” Meyer’s Instagram page is one you’ll definitely enjoy following. An oddly soothing experience in your otherwise hectic feed.

The post This Artist Creates Order Out of Chaos appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.

“I try to keep a variety of large colored paper that I tape against the wall as a backdrop,” she told Ape on the Moon, sharing her artistic process. “The perspective of my shot depends on the sketch, so there’s always a period of readjusting paper pieces, lights, and umbrella defusers to find the predetermined angle and focal point. Once I’ve found the sweet spot, I’ll shoot with my Canon Rebel T3. Then for curiosity’s sake, I’ll shoot with the lights hitting a different angle.”

“It may seem like a lot of time and energy for one illustration but it feels like play. There’s so much opportunity to get your mind off of things and forget about your surroundings,” she adds.

With clients that include the Philadelphia Magazine, Manifest, and The New York Times, and a small following on Instagram, her hard work seems to have paid off.

Enjoy some of our favorites:

The post Angela Rio’s Paper Art is a Blend of Illustrations With Collages appeared first on 5dwallpaper.com.