Imagekind Gallery Works
Copyright (C) 2008
A collection of surreal, whimsical and dramatic pieces.

The Conductor

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. Personal work.

Window of Dreams

Art was originally created as a bookcover for "Life is Elsewhere", by Milan Kundera. As a matter of a fact this was my very first cover assignment, and part of a series done for this important author. Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. remastered.

Creative Problems

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. Personal work. When I didn't have any ideas, I created this piece about not having any ideas. I have a feeling many of us on Imagekind have had moments like this!

Blue Dream

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. Originally created as a book cover for "The Joke", by Milan Kundera.

The Last Catholic in America

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. Originally created as a book cover of the same for the author John Powers. That's my nephew Evan, and my wife Kathleen as an angel...of course!

Summertime

Originally created as book cover for "The Junk-Drawer Corner-Store Front-Porch Blues", by John Powers.

Changing the Past

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. From the series of books I illustrated for Thomas Berger.

The Mask

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. Created as book cover for British mystery author Michael Innes as "The Case of Sonia Wayward"

Being Invisible

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. Originally created as book cover for Thomas Berger.

Love of the Green

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. Created as a bookcover "The Rub of the Green", by William Hallberg. The original version did not have the golfer or sandtrap.

Unveiled

Acrylic painting, digitally remasterd. Originally created as a bookcover for "World the Color of Salt", by Noreen Ayres.

Golfer's Paradise

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered.

Onward

Conceived after the events of 9/11/2001. Acrylic & digital.

Twilight (Ode to Michelangelo)

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. Personal work.

Seminole Sunset

Created as a cover for a book on Seminole Indian history.

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Originally created as book cover of the same name for the author Stephen Pressfield. The movie based on this novel came out in 2000, starring Will Smith, Matt Damon and Charlize Theron and directed by Robert Redford. This was also the last film that Jack Lemmon appeared in before his death in 2001.

Sanctuary



Beast

Cover art for "Beast", by Peter Benchley.

Algorusnimbus

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. From the "Miss Zukas" series of mystery book covers.

Red Moon

Book cover for "Red Moon," a Howard Moon Deer mystery by Robert Westbrook.

Plein Air

Who knew painting outdoors could be so dangerous?

Stones of Years

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. Originally created as book cover in a series I did for Laurie Cabot, the head witch of Salem, Mass.

Celestial Sunrise

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. Originally created as book cover in a series I did for Laurie Cabot, the head witch of Salem, Mass.

Wiccan Dawn

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. Originally created as book cover in a series I did for Laurie Cabot, the head witch of Salem, Mass.

The Fairy Rebel

Book cover for "The Fairy Rebel", by Lynn Reid Banks.

Embers turn to stars

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. Personal work.

Liberty

Magazine cover.

Sands of Eternity

Acrylic & digital painting. Originally created as the book cover for "Ancient Civilizations," from the series of Time Life Books.

Studio Ga-Ga!

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. An autobiographical view of my old studio in Soho, NYC. Aside from including greatest hits, events would happen, like the birth of my son Gregory, that I'd add into the composition.

Mindplayers

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered.

Confusion

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. Originally created as part of a series for Minolta products, appearing with the headline "Ideally, Your Equipment Should Match Your Needs."

Snake charmer

Acrylic painting, digitally mastered. Originally created as part of a series for Minolta products, appearing with the headline "Maybe The Best Way To Handle Risk Is To Avoid It Altogether"

Loch Ness Monster

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. Originally created as part of a series for Minolta products, appearing with the headline "There Are Times When Faster Is Decidedly Better." That's me in the speedboat, and my Dad in the rowboat.

Giant Strawberry

Digital painting, digitally remastered. Originally created as part of a series for Minolta products, with the headline "Coping With Unexpected Growth."

Strawberry Field

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. Created as an ad for an environmental company that "blow dries" produce in the field to eliminate the pesticide run-off into the water supply.

Survivor

Acrylic painting, digitally remastered. Created as a book cover for "The Englishman's Guide To Survival," a listing of British pubs around the world. That's not a condom - it's the author, Graham Whitfield, in the life raft holding a copy!

Imagekind Gallery Surrealism
Copyright (C) 2008
Images Copyright©Lydia Marano, 2007-2010. All rights reserved. Purchase of reproduction does not signify transfer of rights.

Waiting 'Til the Cows Come Home



Sanctuary



Cormorants Dream of Pike in the Sky



The Twins

The twins' first attempt at building a time travel device met with much derision from the scientific community.

Blue Ribbon Fugu

Betty Anne proudly displays her award winning blowfish, Goliath.

Earth Has Music for Those Who Would Listen



The Conversation



pygmy giraffes



Ride 'em!



Carpe Diem



Housekeeping!

Chester, the night watchman, had a real thing for the chambermaid Dot.

Gertrude

Professor Gertrude van de Roos was a world-renown expert of Greek antiquities.

Elemental



Delivery Boy

In those days, any boy with a bicycle could pick up a few bucks making deliveries -- especially if, like Jack, he never got lost

Our Dream



Later That Night

That night his dreams were full of birds and whales and feats of derring-do.

air a danser



Frank

Frank wanted to make sure that everything was picture perfect for Shelby's return this summer

Storm

Imagekind Gallery Manipulations
Copyright (C) 2008

Strength



Desperation



Sculpting Hands



Spare Parts (Take 2)



Have Another Eternal Scream, on me



New Eternal Scream



Up In Smoke



Typical Stoner



Egret



Apple In Hand



Leave No Tree Faceless



Dad Tree



Spare Parts



Welcome to the soldier side.



Engrained



Eternal Scream

This image illustrates a technique known as "The Droste Effect" coined after the Dutch Droste chocolate company whose packaging featured a nun holding a tray with a box of droste chocolate, upon which the same nun appeared, and so on. Recently it was discovered that "The Print Gallery" by M.C. Escher also exemplified this effect, and it was proven that the effect could be reporduced mathematically and with many variations. I created this image using a custom mathematic formula applied to each pixel of the source image using a piece of open source software called Mathmap.

The Fear Inside of Me is Just Me



A bit of droste in my eye



Too Much Grey Hair!



Cracked Face



Metamorphosis



This Book is Confusing



Help Me Out



A Watched Pot



Statuesque



Don't Get Drawn In



Drawing Hands



Look Ma; No Soul



Rind



Self Disassembly



Micro Me



Bond of Union



The Scream



I've Opened Myself To You



Drowning



Handy Hand



Tubby Man



Le Petit Pisco



How the Hell do I Get Out of Here?



Walphabet



Nuclear Explosion



We Don't Believe These Things



A God With Rules



Zoom



Evil Church



Ominous Locomotive



Dad Painting



Hunger



Eye Wish



TV Can Be Recursive



Damn, what floor are we on?



Obligatory Droste Self portrait, with multiplicity



Eternal Scream



Help Me Out



Open Heart



Going Down Droste



sunflower2_droste2



Unwinding the Spiral #2



Yellow Stack



Recursive Purple

A Gerbera Daisy spiraling infinitely into itself.

Unwinding the Spiral



Rootz



Codename: Longhorn 2



Too Many Positive Comments Gave Me a Big Head



Leap of Faith



Growl



Two Faced



Sunset Face



Blown Away



Rest in Peace Pisco Bandito



Lifted



Leopardess



Full of Hot Air



Sunken



Weave



Snakey



Cracked Face 2

Imagekind Gallery AnjiJohnstonDesigns
Copyright (C) 2008
Original artwork, photography and photo manipulation by Anji Johnston

...the Root Of All Evil...

I think the visual says it all...

WaLlFloWeR



BiRd BrAin

I created this for my son Josh who forgot that it was Mother's Day last Sunday and my birthday the week before. And for all you mum's out there that were forgotten please feel free to send this to your children to jog their memory! There's always next year I guess...

No Entry

My visual description of depression and loneliness

Art Is Hard

Have you ever been in one of those artistic funks where nothing, and I mean nothing, will come to mind to create? This is the longest stretch I have had without being able to think or create anything. I think I now know how writers feel when they get ‘blocked’! So the only thing that came to mind was to let myself know that ‘Art Is Hard’. Very hard indeed… Thanks for stopping by

Epiphany!

I have been trying to have one of these for a while now and nothing appears! Instead I decided to create what it might feel like if I had one! Still no luck though … I’ll just keep hoping…

Relection

For my family. I think this is one of the most labour intensive images I have ever done but one of the most rewarding. It took hours to riffle through old family photos, some that I had never seen before, but it was such a joy to be able to still have such wonderful memories. Gone but not forgotten - I love you all

Grounded

This is so not my style and I'm not sure why I even created it this way but oh well! This depicts my New Years resolution. I have tried so many times to stick with them year after year but I always fail and they are usually far beyond my reach. So this year I am choosing something that is possible - to stay grounded and not loose sight of the here and now. Thanks for stopping by!

Keeping Secrets

This is a bit of a personal piece but I won't go into what it's really about. I'm sure lots of people will be able to relate to this though but make of it what you will. Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!

The Lights Are On But No One's Home



Fury

Every day that I was back home in the U.K. the sky seemed to dominate the landscape beyond belief. The cloud formations were ever changing - from foreboding storms to peaceful serenity, all within the space of an hour. This particular image made me feel that the universe was full of fury and wrath. Even the seagulls seemed to sense that all was not right with the world.

Got Doubt?



Reigning Men



Winds Of Change



Don't Let Life Pass You By

I decided to create this piece because I have been sitting in all day waiting for a package from Fed Ex to be delivered. You know, the ones where you have to sign for it and they give you a 10 hour window for delivery. So I didn't want to waste my time doing menial things like cleaning the dust bunnies and doing laundry. I think this was time well spent myself!

Rays Of Hope



Evening Shower

Mother nature at her best. It's amazing how beautiful and jewel -like a few drops of rain on a leaf can look. Straight from my camera (cropped) as nature intended!

Always Half Full



(Unlock your) Imagination



Time Flies By....



Mute My Happyness



Splashdown!



Throw down my ace in the hole



Carpe Diem



The Whole World Over...



No Place Like Home



Life..In A Nutshell



Hush Little Baby



Buckets Full Of Sunshine



Homage



See No Evil



I made you a song



Never Let A Day Pass You By....



Just Waiting



Think Outside The Box



Explore (the possiblities)



Inevitable



Spread Your Wings



Love Lies Bleeding (in my hands)



Forever



Somewhere Out There Is The Future



Why Does it Always Rain On Me?



Art is a pigment of your imagination

Imagekind Gallery Surreal surreal surreal !
Copyright (C) 2008
Welcome to my world ! You'll discover animals like never before and some other images... all surreal. I encourage you to visit my website http://martineroch.net/

Sunday walkie



Rebecca



mid winter dream of spring in wonderland



Valentine



The elegant nanny



Harry and his luxurious carrot



Merry Christmas



The pirate



Brad



Madeleine & Colombine



Celebrity



Jacky



Dreaming of a white Christmas



A bad hair day...



Dogsoup chefs



desperate housewife



my work displayed in a magazine

I'm proud being part of the artist selection of this prestigious magazine. It's available now, in Europe and Canada.

oh come on !



Free



Good bye



Uncle George



Hello !

you're late !

Misty



Donald and the giant velvet rabbits



Leo

this image will be published in the AZART Photo magazine (France, Europe and Canada). Out in mid-September with some other photos and 11 pages about my work.

safe



Accessories



Andrew



Natti



The girl with a pearl earing

Sorry M. Vermeer

the kids



the good boy



Love letter



The snob

photomontage

distraction



the secret birth of stars



a good book



Kitty Ratties Team



a very long winter



The flower basket



Sweet Boudi Rose



Julie



the bank manager



Mimie



Happy



Dizzy crowd



Follow the light, you are not alone

Made in digital

The dreamer

made in digital

the little gardener