Aaron LaShomb grew up in Ottawa, and spent a large amount of time skateboarding, drawing on the back  of exams, and spreading graffiti throughout the city. He attended Sheridan College, followed by Algonquin College for Animation, hoping to find a career that would allow him to draw each day. After graduating he moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and began working at an animation studio… His plan was to only stay for a year, but almost 13 years later Aaron still resides in Nova Scotia with his wife and two children. He continues to paint, draw, and skateboard on a daily basis. What a life!

View more art here: www.aaronlashomb.ca

I just received word that Shane has been enjoying his time and trip in Maui, HI. For those of you who admire his artwork, don’t worry!! He remains “beautifully busy” at his own pace, which coincides with the overall flow and vibe of the Hawaiian islands. He has also started up a new website/blog to keep everyone updated. I will be adding Shane to our Members page, as he has always been down from the jump! Come with anything art related, and he’s all over it!

Check out the featured images above, and his new website here: http://mahaloness.wordpress.com/

Darryl “13″ Bennett was born on Friday the 13th, of March 1981, in Washington, D.C. Through an admiration of his older brother’s habits, which was drawing on sneakers, he began to draw. Over the years, Darryl coined himself “13.” The concept of “13″ is taking a number that is infamous for bad luck and using it as a symbol of good luck and positivity, which involves the day that he was born. In 2007, Darryl Bennett created TokyoThirteen Arts, which is a creative concept that produces t-shirts, photography, paintings, art shows and short films. In 2011, Darryl released his first line of t-shirts for TokyoThirteen Propaganda, a division of TokyoThirteen Arts.

Darryl continued to nurture his art over the years and in 2007 had his first public showing. Darryl entered his work at a group show entitled “No Scratchers: Art Work of Tattoo Culture.” In 2011, he started creating his own group art shows and helping young artist receive publicity for their artwork. Darryl has contributed to Stamp Magazine Online and has been the artist feature in numerous art culture blogs.

http://www.tokyothirteenarts.com/
http://www.facebook.com/propaganda13

Edgar Garcia is an artist born in Washington D.C. to a Guatemalan mother and a Cuban father. He spent his childhood years in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of D.C. and later Langley Park, Maryland where he started drawing. His work is formed out of his impressions, observations and experiences. Composed in mixed media, they illustrate a dynamic exploration and consolidation of vivid colors and texture. Just like life consists of different people and experiences, his art contains different textures and materials that come together to create one vision. “I want the eyes and mind to open up to unconventional ways of seeing and thinking. Art doesn’t always have to look like something or somewhere in the real world.” In his current project he conveys the colorful personalities of some of the people in his life by evoking emotion through the use of bright colors and lots of texture to generate energy and contrast.

View more of his work at EdgarGarciaArt.com or EdgarEGarcia.tumblr.com.

Whitespace Gallery
11 Gayfield Square Edinburgh, Lothian EH1 3NT

Stephen Thorpe’s first solo exhibition at Whitespace in Edinburgh, is long overdue. The Skinny Prize offered from the back of New Contemporaries has given this artist a space suitable enough to show his exemplary interiors. The paintings have titles based upon various aspects of interior space as described in the work of Gaston Bachelard, describing relationships between our experiences. It also aims to show the importance of poetry and theatre in the way we interact with our surroundings, as well as the physicality and spatial relations between the real and imagined, between immediacy and memory.
There is a hint at a European influence as well as places visited in the locale. They seem unsettling with some half suspended shapes and objects, stark bright colour pushed against murky shades and dim lit areas. This gives way to the realization of wit and humorous ideas and concepts. The way is made open to consider the use of space and the importance of cultural past when looking to the future.
The works themselves mix a combination of picture planes, painterly marks, abstract shapes as well as realism. The paintings resemble fixtures that have been torn from the spaces they were created and re-hung in a calm white exhibition space. The vibrant colours play off against the umbers and browns and the intricate patterns lend well against the more chaotic drawn elements.

The show runs 28th April – 10th May 2012. We hope that our international readers will stop by!