BEN BROUGH PROFILE
It’s difficult to believe it has taken us two years to feature the work of Californian-born artist Ben Brough. Because if any artist legitimises the notion of the artistry around board-riding, it is Ben. Sure, Ben is an artist – but he’s many more things besides: surfer, designer, father, husband, conversationalist, skateboarder, art scholar and...
WILL BARRAS PROFILE
Will’s work has been in the spotlight since the 1999 publication of Scrawl, the book that according to the Stolen Space gallery “documented a new movement in street art, graphics and illustration”. Since then, his career has diversified to the point that he is now equally in demand as an acclaimed artist, illustrator and animation...
NEW LOOKING SIDEWAYS SHOP OPENS FOR BUSINESS!
It’s a double celebration here at Looking Sideways HQ this week, as we throw open the doors of our virtual shop for the first time. Head on over to http://shop.wearelookingsideways.com/ and you’ll be able to buy unique original work and prints from our featured LS artists for the first time. Pretty good eh? It marks...
MICHAEL C. HSIUNG PROFILE
Here at Looking Sideways we’re lucky to work with some amazing artists. And as well as inspiring us with their work, they also inspire with their own recommendations as well: like when LS artist Phil Morgan introduced us to the sublime, surreal imaginative netherworld of Californian artist and illustrator Michael C. Hsiung. Phil and Michael...
PHIL MORGAN PROFILE
For prolific Welsh illustrator Phil Morgan, skateboarding and illustration work go hand-in-hand. ‘I’ve been scribbling for as long as I remember, and have always taken inspiration from all kinds of things: skating, music, drinking, books, art, my friends and family’. Both pursuits have taken him a long way, whether designing board graphics for Crayon Skateboards...
SUPERMUNDANE ARTIST PROFILE
Rob ‘Supermundane’ Lowe’s output is truly prodigious, whether through his work as a graphic artist, art director (he helped create Anorak magazine and worked on Sleaze Nation, among others) or typographer. Rob’s enigmatic, organic drawings are in constant demand around the world, whether through his recent Details Exhibition at the Kemistry Gallery, or commission to...
MATT BROMLEY PROFILE
There’s something about London-based illustrator and skateboarder Matt Bromley‘s style that is immediately familiar. Bromley himself describes it as ‘non-linear’, and says that old children’s books are one of his main influences: a concept that’s easy to understand when looking at the simple, fun characters that populate his work, and his deliberate use of only...
HANNAH ADAMASZEK PROFILE
2012 is shaping up to be a pivotal year in the career of artist Hannah Adamaszek. Like most artists, Hannah roamed around for much of her twenties, graduating from Bournemouth with an art degree, travelling the world and honing her work along the way. Today, her distinctive, accomplished style is gaining more and more attention....
JAMES ALDRIDGE PROFILE
Born in the UK in 1971, James Aldridge is a painter who cites his influences as his father’s birdwatching field books, a youthful obsession with heavy metal, and skateboard graphics from Santa Cruz and Powell-Peralta. He now makes paintings from his home in a Swedish forest. I first stumbled on James Aldridge’s work a couple...
BLAISE ROSENTHAL PROFILE
Blaise Rosenthal is a Santa Cruz, California-based artist, who first shot to prominence in the late 1990s as a pro snowboarder. Raised around Lake Tahoe, Blaise’s first board was given to him by Bob Klein – an early snowboard halfpipe pioneer, and riding buddy of Terry Kidwell. Blaise’s parts in such films as Destroyer and...
FRENCH PROFILE
Richard ‘French’ Sayer is one of the most prolific artists and illustrators working in skateboarding right now. Since 2001 he’s been exhibiting his work in solo and group shows in the UK, USA, Europe and Australia. He also finds time to run his own company, Witchcraft Skateboards. His distinctive work, influenced by all things metal,...
TIMOTHY KARPINSKI PROFILE
Like many of the artists we feature here at Looking Sideways, boardsports and art have been part of Timothy Karpinski’s life since he was a young kid stoked on skateboarding back in New England, customising board graphics for his friends. As it happens, one of those friends was soon-to-be snowboarding rock star Danny Kass, and...