Believe it or not, the above piece of paper is an offcut of a stencil by Rob Ryan, literally picked up off the floor at the Pick Me Up show at Somerset House. Maybe a little sad, but nevertheless…

Born in Cyprus in 1962, Rob Ryan studied at Trent Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. His work is the result of the painstaking hand cutting of delicate papers. These intricate works are either sold in papercut form or developed as limited edition screen-prints.

He has a shop in Columbia Road called Ryantown not too far away from our friends at Supernice, and you can check out more of his work at his site here.

Deanne Cheuk is an Australian-born artist based in New York City. Having worked across many mediums as an art director and illustrator, she has established herself as a renowned, talented creative known worldwide for her illustrative typography.

Whilst known for her typography, her watercolour and charcoal composition (See Untitled Cloudy Mountain Watercolor and Charcoal on Paper above) is very alluring, exuding sullen depth and moodiness and drama.

Check out her website here

Siggi Eggertsson is a designer and illustrator from Iceland, and is one of the artists slated to appear in ‘Pick Me Up’, a contemporary graphic art fair at Somerset House in London.

Eggertsson, alongside other designers such as Hvass&Hannibal, Mr Bingo and Pierre Nguyen, will be commissioning exclusive prints for purchase at the show. So buy a ticket, attend the event and get your grubby mits on a future treasure…

Read more about Siggi Eggertsson here and check out Pick Me Up here.

Not only does Christian have quite possibly the best second name around, but his art is both dynamic and enthralling at the same time…

The organic nature of smoke lends itself to many an idea, but rarely is it executed in such a haunting, surreal fashion. Wildgoose, whilst barely out of studenthood, has created a range of pieces labelled ‘Beyond Study’ that stand up nicely as fluidic, natural items, worthy of praise.

Check out the overview from Free Range 2009 here

By trade, Tim Biskup was a draftsman working in animation across the States. Since hitting the fine art world, he has honed his craft creating fascinating, dark images delving into different areas of what he interprets as ‘baroque modernism’.

Check out Tim’s site here for more information.

Doze Green is a member of the Barnstormers art collective. A highly talented artist, Doze is reputed to have an element of premonition in his pieces; a foresight of things to come.

The Barnstormers are a collective of New York/Tokyo-based artists who create large-scale collaborative paintings, films and performances. The group formed in 1999 after a pilgrimage to the rural town of Cameron, North Carolina. During the trip, twenty-five artists painted dozens of barns, tractor-trailers, shacks and farm equipment. Consequently, the tiny tobacco farming community became the unlikely Mecca for the urban collective.

Read more about Doze here, and check out the Barnstormers here.

Skineart is a site dedicated to the collection of sketches, doodles, illustrations and fully-fledged fine art pieces rendered beautifully in Moleskine notebooks.

The piece above, by an artist with the handle MattiasA, is a great example of what inspirational designs can come from spending time with a pen and pad.

But to what extent is the author inspired by the history of the Moleskine itself? Picasso is often cited as a Moleskine adopter; does this link with a master of art inspire all moleskine users to produce feets of design to the best of their ability?

Liu Bolin is a master of artistic disguise. Placing himself in day-to-day scene, Liu merges himself into the background imagery using drawn and painted camouflage.

Check out some more of his work on the Guardian site here.

Kate Atkin is a young, talented artist from Odstock, Wiltshire with an absolute flair for detailed, abstract drawing.

Her pieces are combinations, splicings of different scenes and objects drawn with chaotic intricacy.

Read more about Kate in this recent interview and check out her online portfolio here: www.kateatkin.net

In his own words, Andy Kehoe “…was the son of a sea merchant that was killed by pirates when he was just three years old.” Regardless of this hoaxsome tragedy, Kehoe has gone on to become an eminent player in the contemporary US art scene.

This month, Kehoe is exhibiting for the second time at the Thinkspace Gallery in LA. The show, titled The World Unseen and Those In Between, is Kehoe’s second exhibition at Thinkspace. He describes the show…

“The World Unseen is a place where the spirits of the dead, the never living and the yet to be all reside. This world lies unnoticed to the living yet each world shapes the other. The thinnest of curtains separate the worlds and they perpetually intertwine and overlap. Some live between both worlds and are neither living nor dead, but something more fantastic and in some cases all the more horrible.”

The pieces themselves feature stark yet gracefully realised landscapes, with an element of characterisation, unease and foreboding present in each. To preview the pieces, and find out more info, visit www.thinkspacegallery.com or check out Andy’s site here.