"david bray. born dartford 1970

freelance illustrator since 1996

clients have included:
harvey nichols, h&m, nokia, pizza express,
charles worthington, carlos mag, elle,
flaunt mag, puma, virgin, sony playstation,
sony records, kickers, sunday times, time out,
body shop, vodafone, bbc television, canon,
bloww, paddle monthly and mtv

exhibits himself in amsterdam frequently.

worked in close collaboration with point blank to
produce identity, dvd packaging and promotional
material for dirty sanchez.

in house illustrator/designer for various production -
the album "the world is gone" released on xl
recordings

a bit fat but love his cheeky little face"

From Private View

Graphic Images

Amazing artworks by Lesia Chernish

Recapitulation by Alex Cherry

PIRATE NATION


OPEN YOUR EYES

Can you believe these awesome designs were made by a twenty year old! His name is Alex Cherry, he lives in Hollywood California and you can see more of his work by clicking here.

Visionary art

Visionary art is able to transcend the physical world and portray a wider vision of awareness including spiritual or mystical themes, or is based in such experiences.

Both trained and self-taught (or outsider) artists have, and continue to create visionary works. Many visionary artists are actively engaged in spiritual practices, and some have drawn inspiration from psychedelic drug experiences.

Excerpt from:

A MANIFESTO
OF VISIONARY ART

by L.Caruana

One makes oneself a visionary
by a long, immense, and reasoned
disordering of the senses.
- RIMBAUD

PART I:
WHAT IS VISIONARY ART?

������Where Surrealists tried to elevate the dream-state into a higher reality (and opposed the use of narcotics) the Visionary artist uses all means at his disposal - even at great risk to himself - to access different states of consciousness and expose the resulting vision. Art of the Visionary attempts to show what lies beyond the boundary of our sight. Through dream, trance, or other altered states, the artist attempts to see the unseen - attaining a visionary state that transcends our regular modes of perception. The task awaiting him, thereafter, is to communicate his vision in a form recognizable to 'everyday sight'.

The history of Visionary art is characterized by the attempt to find a new visual language - a language that may overcome the inherent contradiction (of seeing what cannot be seen) and express in visual form the 'supra-visual' or, as we might say in French, le 'sur-visuel'. Insuch a language, the images of art, myth, and dream interfuse, different cultural symbols combine, and new forms are found so as to express the resulting vision -- be that sacred, psychedelic, esoteric, oneiric, occult, alternative, archetypal, primitive, transpersonal, fantastic or - as it sometimes happens - surreal.

Old master visionary artists

• William Blake
• Hieronymus Bosch
• Salvador Dalí
• Max Ernst
• Gustave Moreau
• Remedios Varo
• Morris Graves
• Emil Bittstram
• David C hetlahe Paladin

Visionary artists

• 

  Ernst Fuchs
• HR Giger
• A. Andrew Gonzalez
• Alex Grey
• Elle Nicolai
• De Es Schwertberger
• Rudolf Hausner
• Mati Klarwein
• Paul Laffoley
• Brigid Marlin
• Daniel Mirante
• Antonio Roybal
• Mark Ryden
• Robert Venosa
• Anne Sudworth
• X-8

Related genres

• The Symbolist and Decadent art movement
• Surrealism
• Outsider art
• Psychedelic art
• Fantastic art
• Neosurrealism
• Transcendental Painting Group
• Northwest School of Visionary Art