Over the past 5 years, her work has been exhibited around the world and published in many prestigious books and magazines, with selected clients including Rookie, Domino, The New York Times, and many more. But mostly, she can found creating collage and mixed media art for arts’ sake.

An avid collector of vintage ephemera, her collages are made of images cut from vintage publications ranging from the 1920’s to the 1970’s. “In my earlier work, I’ve used a lot of imagery from National Geographic and other magazines that were super widely published,” she shared with society6’s blog. “Now I try to really search and find more unique things, but it’s definitely more spontaneous.”

With her creative process relying as much on intuition as it does on careful planning, the end result comes as a pleasant surprise. “I love to mindlessly flip through pages and then tear out any page that I like or that speaks to me in some way,” says Hoeckel. “The next step is cutting out specific bits from those pages and then I scan them. I used to do everything totally analog, but now I am working on digitizing a lot of my materials and putting them on a hard drive so that everything can be portable. But basically I am extremely intuitive and so the whole process is informed by my subconscious. That includes knowing when a work is complete. It’s 100% based on feeling.”

Her Instagram page awakens our inner artist.

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“I feel the most inspired by music,” shared Feighan in an interview with the Urban Outfitters blog. “I’m a huge fan of Brian Wilson, his music from the mid 60s-early 70s is incredible. I’m also into tapestries and weavings from central and South America, that’s been inspiring a lot of my color and design lately.”

His aim with his work (whatever the medium) is to create a certain vibe—transporting the viewer or listener to another place altogether. “I always want to try and take people out of their current space or mindset and put them somewhere new,” he explains. “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.”

His tip to other aspiring creatives? Keep working. “Don’t let yourself get down or stressed about too much in your work, if you have ideas keep trying to make them happen,” he stresses. “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. 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.”

Below you’ll find examples of his tropical collage work.

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The New York-based Artist mixes illustration, design, photography, and architecture to create unique collages that are full to the brim with patterns, textures, and colors. “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 admitted in an interview with Metal Magazine. “So no, I didn’t do much collage of any kind while in school. It is still relatively young and new in my oeuvre.”

Her transition to collage art proved to be the right choice. The renowned artist has worked with giants like Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Le Monde; and her work has garnered awards from The Society of Publication Design, American Illustration, and Communication Arts.

Follow her Instagram page for a pop of inspiration.

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Originally from Greece, and currently based in California, Loli became intrigued with the medium of collage because of its elasticity. “It’s neither pure photography, nor pure illustration,” she explained in an interview with Forth Magazine. “It comes with both its pluses and its disadvantages.”

Though her work is more oftentimes than not surreal, her collages form a sort of narrative – with a greater meaning being formed. “It’s important for me to ‘say’ something with my artwork, so for the vast majority of my work there’s a meaning behind them,” says the artist. “I usually do this via presenting a ‘narrative’ scene in my collages, like there’s something bigger going on than what’s merely depicted. Sometimes the scene is witty or sarcastic, some times it’s horrific with a sense of danger or urgency, some times it’s chill. I leave it to the viewer’s imagination to fill-in the blanks of the story plot.”

Featured in top tier publications like the New Yorker, GQ, and Oprah Magazine, and followed by more than 164k fans on Instagram, there’s a clear thirst for the imaginative worlds she creates.

The post These Surreal Collages are Mind-Bending, to Say the Least appeared first on MyTrendTales.

Over the past 5 years, her work has been exhibited around the world and published in many prestigious books and magazines, with selected clients including Rookie, Domino, The New York Times, and many more. But mostly, she can found creating collage and mixed media art for arts’ sake.

An avid collector of vintage ephemera, her collages are made of images cut from vintage publications ranging from the 1920’s to the 1970’s. “In my earlier work, I’ve used a lot of imagery from National Geographic and other magazines that were super widely published,” she shared with society6’s blog. “Now I try to really search and find more unique things, but it’s definitely more spontaneous.”

With her creative process relying as much on intuition as it does on careful planning, the end result comes as a pleasant surprise. “I love to mindlessly flip through pages and then tear out any page that I like or that speaks to me in some way,” says Hoeckel. “The next step is cutting out specific bits from those pages and then I scan them. I used to do everything totally analog, but now I am working on digitizing a lot of my materials and putting them on a hard drive so that everything can be portable. But basically I am extremely intuitive and so the whole process is informed by my subconscious. That includes knowing when a work is complete. It’s 100% based on feeling.”

Her Instagram page awakens our inner artist.

The post Beth Hoeckel’s Collage Art is Part Vintage, Part Futuristic appeared first on MyTrendTales.

“I feel the most inspired by music,” shared Feighan in an interview with the Urban Outfitters blog. “I’m a huge fan of Brian Wilson, his music from the mid 60s-early 70s is incredible. I’m also into tapestries and weavings from central and South America, that’s been inspiring a lot of my color and design lately.”

His aim with his work (whatever the medium) is to create a certain vibe—transporting the viewer or listener to another place altogether. “I always want to try and take people out of their current space or mindset and put them somewhere new,” he explains. “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.”

His tip to other aspiring creatives? Keep working. “Don’t let yourself get down or stressed about too much in your work, if you have ideas keep trying to make them happen,” he stresses. “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. 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.”

Below you’ll find examples of his tropical collage work.

The post Tropical Vibe: Ted Feighan’s Collage Art and Music Go Hand in Hand appeared first on MyTrendTales.

The New York-based Artist mixes illustration, design, photography, and architecture to create unique collages that are full to the brim with patterns, textures, and colors. “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 admitted in an interview with Metal Magazine. “So no, I didn’t do much collage of any kind while in school. It is still relatively young and new in my oeuvre.”

Her transition to collage art proved to be the right choice. The renowned artist has worked with giants like Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Le Monde; and her work has garnered awards from The Society of Publication Design, American Illustration, and Communication Arts.

Follow her Instagram page for a pop of inspiration.

The post Johanna Goodman is a Master of Collage Art appeared first on MyTrendTales.

Originally from Greece, and currently based in California, Loli became intrigued with the medium of collage because of its elasticity. “It’s neither pure photography, nor pure illustration,” she explained in an interview with Forth Magazine. “It comes with both its pluses and its disadvantages.”

Though her work is more oftentimes than not surreal, her collages form a sort of narrative – with a greater meaning being formed. “It’s important for me to ‘say’ something with my artwork, so for the vast majority of my work there’s a meaning behind them,” says the artist. “I usually do this via presenting a ‘narrative’ scene in my collages, like there’s something bigger going on than what’s merely depicted. Sometimes the scene is witty or sarcastic, some times it’s horrific with a sense of danger or urgency, some times it’s chill. I leave it to the viewer’s imagination to fill-in the blanks of the story plot.”

Featured in top tier publications like the New Yorker, GQ, and Oprah Magazine, and followed by more than 164k fans on Instagram, there’s a clear thirst for the imaginative worlds she creates.

The post These Surreal Collages are Mind-Bending, to Say the Least appeared first on MyTrendTales.