” I was born in London in 1990. I currently live and work in Brighton. I am a portrait artist working with biro on paper. I produce large-scale portraits using an intricate technique of overlapping elliptical marks, which gradually build to represent the subtle contours of the face. In common with digital images, my works, close up, appear as thousands of tiny ‘pixels’. When viewed from a distance they reveal the subtleties and nuances of individual character. I am interested in the contrast between the minute, repetitive mark-making and the highly personal image that is created. The process is similar to mass production. I work from photographs, concentrating on one section of the face at a time. Over several shifts spent in this way, the work culminates in a finished product which is, paradoxically, an authentic and personal portrait.” – Jacob Everett

WALLPIECE I-III, 2009. burnt sugar (liquid), Maple, MDF, swimmingpool coating – An object whose volume consists of viscid burnt sugar, melted due to air moisture while being another work of art. Put on the wall immediately before the opening reception, the content slowly starts to flow out.

” Though my work typically depicts suburban scenes, I was raised by artists deep in the woods of New Hampshire. I received my BFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art in 1997 and have lived in Boston ever since. I made my living as an interactive designer and art director for over ten years, but now paint full time.” – Leah Giberson

Mark Licari <-- Born 1975, Atlanta, GA; Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA; Education: 2000 MFA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; 1997 BFA, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO

Born in Germany, Rudy Sparkuhl grew up in Montreal and has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Concordia University. He currently lives in London, Ontario. A full time artist, he has exhibited professionally since 1977.

Craig Wylie <-- born in Masvingo, Zimbabwe in 1973, studied Fine Art at Rhodes University in South Africa and has lived in London since 1998. Among such distinctions as winning the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in 2008 and being commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to paint Dame Kelly Holmes for their permanent collection, Wylie has consistently pursued the face as an entry point. In his own words, he attempts to "isolate a kind of uninflected tension, borrowing the instantaneous from photography and extending it in time through painting, as if an infinitely vibrating chord." (via The South African)

Laura Owens (b. 1970, Euclid, Ohio) is an American painter who emerged in the late 1990s. She is best known for her mixed media paintings of animals and landscapes that incorporate a variety of art historical references and painterly techniques. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

Pat Boas is an artist, writer and educator. Her drawings, paintings, prints and digital projects explore the play between words and images, the nature of codes and the arbitrary quality of the systems we use to communicate. With sources that include children’s homework exercises, newspaper headlines, web icons, crowd-sourced image banks, Shaker spirit drawings and the conventions of natural history illustration, she scrambles and reshapes information to release hidden stories from familiar grammatical structures. (via Portland State University)

Wild walls. In powder-coated aluminum, the sculptural Safari Hooks let you hang jackets, scarves or jewelry from animals’ ears, trunks and noses. Collect a whole set to make your own menagerie.

Breathtaking photos of the Antelope Canyon in Arizona by Gregory Boratyn, a software engineer with a huge passion for photography.