10 Digital Artists: The Art of Digital Collage
From surreal dreamscapes to thought-provoking social commentaries, digital collage art showcases the artist's imagination and storytelling abilities in a visually stunning and intricate form. With endless possibilities, artists can break free from the constraints of traditional mediums, creating unique and captivating compositions.
While digital collage involves a similar process as traditional collage art, imagination truly becomes the only limit. The digital format allows for effortless experimentation, enabling artists to manipulate, layer, and transform images with ease. The vast pool of online resources and images further expands creative possibilities, offering an infinite array of source materials to incorporate into their works.
Whether you are an artist looking for inspiration, a curator working on an exhibition, or a digital arts fan looking to discover digital artists, this list is for you.
Here’s a list of 10 talented digital collage artists who create meaningful art using stock images, magazine clips, photographs, and more.
Scroll to learn more about them! Here’s the featured artists:Rebecca RoseErin McGean1dontknowsJess GasparNatasha ChomkoIdris VeitchDromsjelOdell HusseyMarieke VYağmur GüzleYağmur Güzle is a collage artist based in Istanbul, Turkey. She has been creating analog collages since 2017, and started using digital manipulation to experiment more with digital possibilities to create her compositions a couple years ago.
She creates analog as well as digital collages to depict the flow of life via the dialogue between found images. During her creative process, the artist lets the visuals take charge and shape her compositions.
Yağmur Güzle is also the co-founder of Istanbul Collage Lab, a collage collective for artists and creatives alike. They organize collage events where everyone who creates digital or analogue collages comes together. The collective production space allows artists to receive feedback, engage in discussions, and share ideas while creating alongside each other.
“Collage is a very limitless and free medium. I liken it to the flow of life, where all incompatibilities create harmony and draw you in. I usually work on emotions; collage is a form of expression. Reading collage works nourishes and inspires me a lot.”
Read our interview with Yağmur to learn more about her art, creative process, and inspirations!
Marieke is the Netherlands-based digital artist behind Collages de Marie. With a passion for vintage, she aims to find the perfect composition using color and texture. Her digital collage art is recognizable for its vintage photos, flowers, and birds.
Marieke reimagines everyday themes from a deeper and more beautiful lens. You can follow her collage works for inspiration and shop her prints on Etsy and Art Heroes.
“I have always had a passion for vintage photos, color, nature and finding the perfect composition. In my work I try to give beauty, depth and a little bit of humor to everyday themes. Love and nature are main themes in my work. And music always plays a role too. I only work digitally. My method is actually quite simple! I start with a photo or illustration that appeals to me at that moment. Then I collect everything that I like, that fits in terms of color or feeling. And then usually a nice composition is created... Expressing emotions and feelings through a striking image gives me great satisfaction. In the end it is all about emotion and feeling.”
Odell Hussey is a cosmic collage artist, animator, AI curator, and photographer. His art is recognizable for its elements from outer space, the natural world, and humanity.
With a background in photography and video production, Hussey has spent 15 years editing documentaries, orientation, and commercial videos for clients. His knack and interest in composing scenes and telling stories through visuals is reflected brilliantly in his digital collages.
The artist utilizes the AI technology to explore endless possibilities and push the boundaries of his art with an aim to create scenes that transport the observer to new worlds. Where imagination is the only limit, Odell Hussey’s art is a celebration of visual exploration.
“My aim with the collage work is to ultimately is to create scenes that the observer can escape to, explore visually, and feel the vast possibilities of life beyond themselves.”
Pierre Schmidt, better known as Drømsjel in the digital arts world, is a digital artist based in Berlin, Germany. He is mostly known for his digital collages, which are explorations of his psyche and subconscious suppressions — and often Not Safe For Work.
While drawing inspirations from music videos, pop culture, film, and fashion, Drømsjel’s fascination for vintage photography stems from the color palette and tones. He creates gorgeous collages editing old magazine photos and his art is beautifully unique for cherishing the nostalgia while augmenting it using digital tools.
“In your dreams you can be anything and anywhere, that is the space where I like to be and what I like to promote.”
Drømsjel is also featured in 10 Digital Artists: Digital flowers that blossom in our hearts
Idris Veitch is a Jamaican/Nigerian digital artist who mainly creates digital collages and mixed media art. His works represent a natural evolution of bright colors, contrasting textures, and elements of Afrofuturism.
The artist went to Tokyo for his studies at Esmod Fashion School. Japanese influences combined with his half-Nigerian and half-Jamaican roots to give birth to an art collection filled with cross cultural references. The themes of intercultural fusion reflect wonderfully in his digital collages thanks to the very nature of collage art.
Idris Veitch has been featured in publications including Nataal, African Digital Art, Vogue Girl Japan, and Buzz Caribbean, and his art has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Nigeria, Japan and Jamaica.
Natasha Chomko, also known as Post Wook in the digital arts world, is a visual artist and creative director based in Los Angeles. She mainly creates “places that never existed” via surreal landscape collage art with nostalgic images and psychedelic elements and challenges perception of shapes, color, and texture in her art to create new universes out of pre-existing photos.
The artist started making collages at the age of 12, but went on studying Political Science and working on a political campaign as her full-time job. After feeling creatively starved, she turned back to collage and never looked back. Since then she has worked with recognizable clients such as Adobe, Chase Bank, Sony, and Toyota.
While believing that her self-taught art is therapeutic in the sense that it frees her inner child, she also strongly believes in the decentralized future of digital art in the web3 space and bridging the gap between art and technology.
“I’m really not supposed to be here. Even before I was born, my spirit fought to take a breath and my life experiences should have been cut short many times.
Now I make art about it.
I use art to process emotions, old memories, feelings, and things that have happened in my life. Every element of my work is symbolic. I now see that I’m here because I’m supposed to tell this story.
Thanks for paying attention.”
Rebecca Rose is an artist and curator based in Florida. She creates sculptural, digital, immersive, and holographic collages that has won awards. The artist has been selected for residencies at Ox-Bow/SAIC and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and her art has been collected on the blockchain as NFTs.
Her work questions the digital and physical existence of art — as she prints out her digitally-created collages to manipulate and experiment with them, before going back digital to create NFTs, her art blends the distinction between digital and tangible.
She is currently working on bringing her 3D collages into the web3 space as walk-through art installations in the Metaverse. These installations will be brought back into the physical space as life-sized walk through art installation holograms, yet again blurring the lines between the digital and physical.
Jess Gaspar is a digital collage artist from Portugal. Being a space enthusiast and a sci-fi lover, she creates retro-futuristic collages. Her work is recognizable for its otherworldly landscapes, planets, and vintage aesthetics.
Having always been fascinated by the blend of nostalgia and futuristic elements found in retro futurism art, the artist creates beautiful digital collages of this genre. Jess Gaspar explores the possibilities that arise “when we look back to move forward,” and tackles the creative challenge of blending seemingly disparate elements to tell new stories.
Fans can shop her digital collage prints and license her work as cover art for their projects.
“Retro futurism art takes us on a visual journey through time, merging the past’s optimistic ideas about the future with today’s artistic sensibilities. It’s like stepping into a world where the dreams and aspirations of the Atomic Age and the Space Age meet modern design, creating an intriguing and evocative fusion that speaks to our collective imagination. Whether it’s through the use of vintage color palettes, bold typography, or futuristic themes, retro futurism offers a window into an alternate reality that’s both familiar and otherworldly.”
Phanuwat Chukoed, better known as 1dontknows in the digital arts world, is a collage artist from Thailand. His work has been exhibited around the world such as the USA, Switzerland, the UK, and Thailand. His NFT art has gained widespread recognition, and has been featured at an auction at Sotheby’s.
1dontknows creates digital collages which blends elements of classicism and surrealism — in other words, Renaissance art meets contemporary surrealist aesthetics to define his unique style. Whether that be classical depictions of goddesses with full-sleeve tattoos or 18th century women scrolling through internet, 1dontknows incorporates elements from distinct eras and styles to create stunning art.
1dontknows draws inspiration from music, quotes, poetry, mythology, as well as his environment and personal experiences.
Erin McGean is a collage artist who’s based in Toronto. She has a background in Fine Art and Education and has been working as a full-time artist for over 15 years. Her work has been featured in various publications and art collections, including as part of the Nature in the Digital Age exhibition at The NFT Gallery.
Through her work, Erin McGean explores the interplay between visual culture, personal identity, and the evolving narrative of human history. By using vintage images, the artist invites the viewer to reimagine future paths shaped by past ideologies — she inspires personal growth and deeper insights by combining reimagines futures with the influences of the past.
“Animating my collages through stop motion has not only given me the opportunity to explore time and motion, it also adds a new layer of depth and complexity to the analog work bringing the static image to life. Augmented reality allows the viewer to enjoy the elements moving and interacting with one another while engaging with the still version using their device.”
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