10 Digital Artists: Digital flowers that blossom in our hearts
For as long as there has been art, flowers have been a part of it. They have been used to express love, passion, innocence, life, death, and so much more, and their contemporary role in digital arts is no exception.
Whether they portray existential explorations of bloom and decay, or joy through their beautiful colors, floral designs carry rich symbolism that ignites deep feelings in all of us — even when they are grown in 1’s and 0’s.
If 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.
We gathered 10 talented digital artists who make use of beautiful floral designs and create gorgeous digital flowers using several forms and techniques, such as augmented reality, digital collage, and animation.
Scroll to learn more about them! Here’s the featured artists:Paul TraniFragmatistaTinker TailorRhea BambuluSaeko EharaLaura ShepherdDrømsjelLuna IkutaRiskaShay the SurrealistPaul Trani is a Denver-based, award-winning designer and public speaker who specializes in interactive design and animation.
Trani not only creates wonderful animations, but he is also the Principal Worldwide Creative Cloud Evangelist for Adobe since 2010, training designers and developers to create content for web and mobile devices using Creative Cloud. He creates masterclasses and online courses for artists that utilize technology to create.
We are in love with his NFT artworks depicting flowers blooming from within the human body — reminding us that true beauty comes from within.
Giselle Angeles, better known as Fragmatista in the digital arts world, is a Peruvian 3D motion designer, multidisciplinary digital artist, and art director based in New York City.
She works with installations and immersive experiences, exploring 3D creative design and digital worlds. She has collaborated with international design studios and brands including UEFA Champions League, Dell, Adidas Originals, and Vogue Magazine.
Known for depicting organic forms of plants, insects, reptiles, and their continuous dance-like movements in our interconnected ecosystem, Fragmatista’s art invites us to see nature with fresh eyes.
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Hera Kim is a florist, graphic designer, and media artist who shares her digital artworks under Tinker Tailor Studio. She also is the CEO of a Korea-based interior and decoration company, focusing on wedding halls and flowers.
Her art demonstrates significant inspiration from her work as a florist, and she utilizes AI technology to capture her viewers in a dreamworld that resembles classical oil paintings. We are totally captivated by her still-life of flowers and butterflies collection.
Check out her gorgeous VR exhibition to see her intertwined depictions of bloom and decay, and life and death.
Rhea Bambulu is an illustrator from Indonesia. She grew up in a small town called Tembagapura and is now based in Jakarta. She has a degree in Visual Communication Design from Trisakti University and worked as a Graphic Designer in several design studios before becoming a full-time illustrator in 2016.
She creates digital paintings and GIFs drawing inspiration from the modern romanticism era and the anime pop culture of the 80s and 90s. Her artistic expression, she says, “articulates her melancholy.”
Her art stands out for its vibrant colors and its depictions of romantic moments, full of flowers and stars in the night sky — and it just brings spring to our hearts.
Saeko Ehara is a Kirakira (Japanese word for glitter, glisten, twinkle) artist and video journalist based in Tokyo. She represents Kirakira motifs such as jewels and flowers in her works and is inspired by Japanese Anime culture. With a background in oil painting, she is interested in finding a connection between analog and digital experiences and mixing the old with the new.
Saeko’s inspiration comes from memories and joys of her childhood. She continues to learn and explore the expressions of Kirakira using multiple types of software to make the world full of Kirakira and joy through her art.
The digital flowers she creates twinkle and swirl, and mesmerize us all.
Read our interview with Saeko to learn more about her art, creative process, and inspirations!
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Laura Shepherd is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and creative director based in London, who is “Exploring the Energy in Digital.” She uses 2D vectors and bitmap painting as well as 3D modeling.
Her art can be referred to as virtual psychedelics for its use of colors and texture, or in her words, a “practice of co-creation with digital technology to birth a uniquely contemporary psychedelic visual language and experience.”
It wouldn’t be possible to create a list dedicated to digital flowers and not mention her AR flowerhead avatars. We are completely in love with her figures that augment and light up any space by dancing or sometimes just chilling. Along with the series, she launched Flower Power in One Word, which features still life portraits of the flowerhead avatars with the word that evokes the energy of her digital flower sculptures.
Pierre Schmidt, who goes by drømsjel in the art world, is a digital collage artist based in Berlin, Germany. He is mostly known for his collages, which are explorations of his psyche and subconscious suppressions — and Not Safe For Work.
He creates gorgeous collages editing old magazine photos and his art is beautifully unique for cherishing the nostalgia while augmenting it using digital tools. Drømsjel commonly uses flowers in his collages, summoning the beauty and effortless elegance of our human nature.
Luna Ikuta is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Tokyo, Japan and is currently based in Los Angeles. She creates “quality atmospheric experiences” with the help of her background in industrial design.
Ikuta has been making site-specific installations for public art, as well as international brands, musicians, and private collections. She combines traditional craft with modern technology to create objects, films, videos, NFTs, public art, and aquatic works.
Afterlife, her most notable work that has been exhibited in galleries and institutions worldwide, is an installation of ghostly underwater landscapes with gently dancing flowers. She captures the simple beauty of black and white in Afterlife, where time stops at the most peaceful moment ever existed.
Riska is an Indonesian illustrator and NFT artist who creates under the name Holakanola. Her art is a magical realm itself — full of flowers, details, patterns, and vibrant colors. In her words, her biggest inspirations are “women, flowers, or anything pretty.”
Riska also draws inspiration from folktales and fairytales, clearly visible in her The Book of Elves and Fairies collection. In her descriptions she includes backstories to the forest, such as the customs and traditions as well as characteristics of the fairies, to further immerse us in the artwork.
The fantasy worlds she creates make us want to teleport to these alternate realities where everything is magical, beautiful, and full of wonders.
Shaylin Wallace, better known as Shay the Surrealist in the digital art world, is a digital artist and graphic designer from Wilmington, Delaware and is currently based in Washington D.C.
Shay the Surrealist creates surrealistic compositions and “strives to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary.” She has worked with clients including Netflix, Mercedes Benz, Adobe, AMC, and Warner Bros, and her work has been exhibited worldwide.
Speaking of digital flowers — we are huge fans of her Blooming Blossoms and Floral Beings Series where she uses Adobe Photoshop to create Afrocentric floral portraits that convey the confidence of embracing change, uniqueness, and inner beauty, and blooming fearlessly.
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