1. De Es Schwertberger

    De Es Schwertberger (born Dieter Schwertberger 1942, Gresten, Austria), commonly known simply as De Es (since 1972), is an Austrian artist, painter and modeller. His work has been shown in exhibitions in New York City, where he lived for a short time, and Switzerland.

  2. Mark Ryden

    Mark Ryden (b. January 20, 1963 in Medford, Oregon) is an American fine-art painter

  3. H. R. Giger

    Hans Ruedi Giger (born at Chur, Grisons canton, February 5, 1940) is an Academy Award-winning Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer best known for his design work on the film "Alien".

  4. Hieronymus Bosch

    Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450 - August 9, 1516) was a prolific Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Many of his works depict sin and human moral failings. Bosch used images of demons, half-human animals and machines to evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man. The works contain complex, highly original, imaginative, and dense use of symbolic figures and iconography, some of which was obscure even in his own time.

  5. Ernst Fuchs

    Ernst Fuchs (born February 13 1930) is an Austrian visionary painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, architect, stage designer, composer, poet, singer and one of the founders of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.

  6. William Blake

    William Blake was an English poet, visionary, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake's work is today considered seminal and significant in the history of both poetry and the visual arts. He was voted 38th in a poll of the 100 Greatest Britons organized by the BBC in 2002. According to Northrop Frye, who undertook a study of Blake's entire poetic corpus, …

  7. Camille Rose Garcia

    Camille Rose Garcia (born 1970) is a Los Angeles-based lowbrow artist. She produces paintings, prints and sculpture in a gothic, "creepy" cartoon style. She cites as influences Walt Disney and Philip K. Dick.

  8. Roger Dean

    Roger Dean (born August 31, 1944, in Ashford, Kent) is a contemporary English artist best known for his work on album covers, which he began painting in the late 1960s.

  9. Gary Baseman

    Gary Baseman (born 1960) is a visual artist, particularly known as an illustrator and cartoonist, who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Baseman received a degree, Phi Beta Kappa, from UCLA in 1982. He has since worked as a fine artist, commercial artist, editorial artist, and as a television and film art director and producer of animation. His work is distinguished by big-eyed characters in slapstick situations and vivid use of colour.

  10. Brigid Marlin

    Brigid Marlin (born January 16, 1936) is a fantasy and portrait artist living in England. She paints in the Mische Technique, a medieval method revived by Austrian artist Ernst Fuchs, with whom she studied in Vienna. Her fantasy work can be classified as Fantastic Realism, i.e. using figurative elements to represent visionary and psychic subjects, often with scriptural themes. She has painted portraits, "inter alia", of the Dalai Lama, …

  11. Amanda Sage
  12. Marion Peck

    Marion Peck is an United States painter born on October 3, 1963 in Manila, the Philippines, while her family was on a trip around the world. She grew up in Seattle, Washington, the youngest of four children.

  13. Joe Coleman

    Joe Coleman (born November 22 1955) is an American illustrator and painter.

  14. Antonio Roybal

    Antonio Roybal (born October 1, 1976) is an American fine-art painter and sculptor from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

  15. Henry Darger

    Henry Darger (April 12[?], 1892-April 13, 1973) was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a janitor in Chicago, Illinois. He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page fantasy manuscript called "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion", along with several hundred drawings and watercolor paintings illustrating the story.

  16. Paul Laffoley

    Paul Laffoley (b. Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 14, 1940), is an American visionary artist and architect.

  17. Alexis Rockman

    Alexis Rockman is an American contemporary artist known for his paintings depicting the precarious relationship between man and nature. He has been exhibiting his work internationally since 1985, when he received a BFA in fine arts from the School of Visual Arts. His artworks are information-rich depictions of how our culture perceives and interacts with plants and animals, and the role culture plays in influencing the direction of natural history.

  18. Richard Dadd

    Richard Dadd was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail. Most of the works for which he is best known were created while he was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital.

  19. Sean Hopp

    Sean Mathew Hopp (born 1970) is a neosurrealist painter, graphic designer, musician, and the founder of the experimental art and music collective Mathbat. His paintings are featured in public collections in Chicago, Los Angeles, and London, as well as many private collections throughout the US, Europe, and Australia. Hopp's body of work spans over 250 finished oil paintings, as well as numerous prints, drawings, and murals.

  20. Austin Osman Spare

    Austin Osman Spare (December 30, 1886 - May 15, 1956) was an English artist and magician.

  21. Calvin Maglinger

    Calvin Maglinger (b. December 5, 1924 in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an American fine-art painter

  22. Brad Maglinger

    Brad Maglinger (b. November 23, 1980 in Evansville, Indiana) is a Jewish American fine-art painter and graphic artist who is credited by some for originating the silhouette-style paintings that were popularized in the early turn of the century.

  23. Caniglia

    Jeremy Caniglia (1970-) is an American figurative painter and illustrator, primarily in fantasy and horror genres. He has done book and magazine illustration, conceptual artwork, book and album covers, and comic books, and his work is in several important public collections including the Joslyn Art Museum and Iowa State University. His art has also been shown at the Society of Illustrators' Museum of Illustration.

  24. Carl Blechen

    Carl Blechen, sometimes given as Karl Blechen, was a German painter, specializing in fantastic landscapes, sometimes with demons and grotesque figures. Born in Cottbus, he drew the attention of prominent architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who cast him as a decorative painter. Blechen however aimed for higher work and began producing landscape paintings. In 1827 he went to Italy, and from 1835 was a member and professor at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.

  25. Robert Venosa

    Robert Venosa has been exhibited worldwide and is represented in major collections, including those of noted museums, rock stars and European aristocracy. In addition to painting, sculpting and film design (pre-sketches and conceptual design for the movie Dune, and Fire in the Sky for Paramount Pictures, and the upcoming Race for Atlantis for IMAX), he has recently added computer art to his creative menu. His work has been the subject of three books, …