Matthew Star Thomas does incredibly detailed photoillustrative: intricate as lace, phantasmal and hallucinogenic as Technicolor hallucinations. His bio is great:
Mathew's illustrations lie somewhere between the cutting edge of the new breed in contemporary illustration and the tempting nipple of naive. Impossible to pigeon-hole, Couscous Kids' dream-like and innocent style leads us dancing eerily among the childlike leaves we cling onto through life to a deeper and darker space. A timeless place where fantasy and fairy tale doodles combine with intrigue, mystery and sex. At first glance all is as it seems with hints of sixties abandon, but closer inspection reveals a 21st century humour and physical freedom hidden among the sublime and ridiculous forms and characters.
'The tempting nipple of [blank]' is going on my shortlist of phrasings to purloin.
Matthew Star Thomas [Artist's Site]
