Featured Artist: VinZzep

If it feels like your day is moving too fast, then slow it down and float away with this week’s Featured Artist VinZzep. Vin’s ethereal store — filled with delicate whimsical designs — is a chance to start your day with a weightlessness and a refreshing sense of calm. VinZzep’s buoyant artwork, complete with flying pandas and playful goldfish, will help you drift away on a wave of rest and relaxation after a stressful day!

VinZzep is living in Melbourne, Australia and describes his art as “dreamlike modern surrealism or as I sometimes call it ‘etherealism.’” He loves to create art and shares, “I focus on creating what I like and hope others like it” which has led to a fun style that radiates a gentle reminder that anything is possible. He believes that inspiration can come from “almost anywhere” and his graphics start with a simple sketch or a loose idea and develop into one of his trademark quirky designs. In fact, he confesses that it can feel like an idea almost “creates itself” and that he is simply “a conduit for something greater.”

He is currently working for an Interior Design firm in the U.S.A. and is excited to present his art “in a large hotel project” someday. However, one of his proudest moments as an artist and the experience that he is the “most grateful for” is a collaboration with Google where he displayed several of his art pieces at the main office in Paris, France.

He considers that creativity “is a lifestyle” and that it helps artists to see the world through a different lens and think outside the box. He believes that it is important to “follow what makes you happy and create what you like. Cliché, I know but nothing replaces hard work.”