Featured Artist(s): Lineartespilot
The quirky artist team, Lineartespilot, is comprised of the illustrators, Matt and Stace, and together they create art that pulses with a vibrant pure energy. The designs — whether it’s a skull drinking coffee or a vintage Pin-up model — are the perfect bold statements for tattoo art or just a fun way to personalize your space with a unique flare.
Matt and Stace live in Wales and wish they could “fold [Wales] in on itself until it’s a pocket universe, aware of the world but untouched by it.” And together, in this pocket universe, they live a life that bubbles up with humor and creativity that fuels their art and passion. In fact, their greatest obstacle for creating art is not a mental block or feeling frustrated with a lack of design ideas; rather it is “time” because — simply put — “there’s never enough” of it to go around. The artist team shares that it can sometimes feel like their life is “a giant size yarn ball of activities all rolling downhill towards an intersection.” Still, they are always able to get everything finished (while also managing to avoid a metaphorical yarn collision).
Lineartespilot describes their art as a perfect mix of warm memories and small celebrations that —nevertheless — also somehow feel like a smattering of oddball recollections that may or may not be real; then they heighten these sentiments by “800%” to make everything feel “dusted with gold.” This unique perspective and appreciation for the world makes for rare and exciting perceptions and one-of-kind designs.
When asked about trading places with DBH for a day, they joked, “If you [DBH] could finish the bathroom, paint the halls and restore the tiles in the main room that would be great.” In reality though, they admit that their life is filled with dogs, work schedules, and promoting their art. Matt admits that their designs only feel finished when “Stace says it looks good” or they can both imagine seeing it in the world as a sticker or a t-shirt. Only then do they send it out to be loved and appreciated by the world.