The Underwater Artist: Jason deCaires Taylor

An artist who spent much of his early childhood exploring the coral reefs of Malaysia. A graduate of the London Institute of Arts Taylor went on to become a fully qualified diving instructor and underwater naturalist.  Taylor's is primarily a sculptor but is also an award winning underwater photographer, acclaimed for his dramatic images. In 2006, Taylor founded and created the world’s first underwater sculpture park furnished with underwater sculptures of his design off the coast of Grenada in the West Indies. Taylor's public art projects are not only an illustration of successful marine conservation, but inspirational works of art.



To see more of her work visit: http://www.underwatersculpture.com/

Max Zorn

Max Zorn is a Dutch artist based in Amsterdam. His style is notable for its use of brown packing tape as a medium and cutting on acrylic glass with a scalpel to create portraits that need lighting from behind to be seen. Over time Max Zorn has learned to apply more layers of brown translucent tape for greater impact and illusion of depth. Max Zorn's rise to popularity began after publishing a two-minute self-made video on YouTube titled “Street Art by Max Zorn Making of Tape Art” in 2011.The video showed how Max Zorn hangs his translucent tape art on street lamps as a form of street art at night in Amsterdam.  Max Zorn’s settings and themes are influenced by film noir while brown shades and different layers of tape create a sepia tone. Max Zorn draws inspiration from characters in novels produced by writers such as Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Salinger. His work also is influenced by American realism artists such as Edward Hopper.

To see more of her work visit: http://www.maxzorn.com/