Joe Pogan is a 3D artist who spent four years in the navy and studied both art and welding at college. He has been a professional welder for over 20 years and had the task of welding mountain bikes. For the past several years Pogan has been combining his artistic and welding skills to create sculptures of animals made out of "found metal"
David Rogers
The sculptor David Rogers started sculpting at an early age, when he was 13 he learned how to weld and began to start making abstract sculptures out of old car parts. Over the next couple of years he started to use forest materials for his sculptures, by the time he was making sculptures out of forest materials he a also produced some insects out of metal. After seven years of doing jobs for people most of which was carpentry, Rogers went back to art and in 1993 he started making his big bugs project.
Justin Gershenson-Gates
This artist makes a number of things out of bits of mechanical work, mostly from clocks and watches. His grandfather was a rail road man and his dad was a gear head. Ever since he was a kid he has been taking things apart and when he grew up he started making artistic things out of them such as accessories and sculptures
Job van der Molen
Job van der Molen spent four years training as a graphic designer and after graduating focused heavily on his work. In 2010 he was nominated for the young blood award for a dutch magazine. Even though he works primarily on 2D art, he has a 3D project on insects. The project is about him turning animals, mostly insects into android looking creatures with machine parts which are mostly weapon related.
Jill Moger
Jill Moger makes ceramic sculptures of reptiles and occasionally insects or aquatic lifeforms. Moger has won awards for her work such as the 2009 Bidders Bourne sculptors and graves award and she has been elected for multiple memberships including the Society of Wildlife Artists where she holds the position of newsletter editor. In 1991 Moger set up her own workshop and had her first solo exhibition at York university.
Mike Libby
Mike Libby has a degree in sculpture from RISD and has been a artist in residence at the University of Maine at Orono. Mike used dead insects and then dissected them and replaces some of their body parts with old clockwork pieces .
Jessa Huebing Retinger
This artist achieved a BFA degree in painting from Kansas city institute.Since graduating Jessa started making pastel portraits of insects in public areas which she often uses to help educate people as she works. Jessas' paintings are very close up, in high detail and have some great lighting.
Christopher Burdett
Christopher Burdett graduated from Florida state University in 1999 with a Bachelors of fine arts and has done art for many companies for over 10 years. His art is character based sketches and fully coloured scenarios that often have obvious impressions from a certain species of animals. Burdett's art has been used in many franchises including Star Wars which the image on the right is from.
Frank Gonzales
Frank Gonzales is a painter who works almost exclusively with birds making paintings of them on basic backgrounds. Gonzales' paintings will have strange marks on them to make it look like the paintings are glitching and artefacts are appearing on them. Frank Gonzales studied at Mesa community college for four years and Laguna college of art and design for three years and has also took part in over 40 exhibitions both group and solo.
Sinclair Stratton
Sinclair Stratton makes water colour paintings of different types of animals including insects reptiles and birds. Stratton has been commissioned to paint animals from across the world painting both wild animals and household pets. Her work is very vibrant and colourful which helps her work stand out and it makes them more unique.
Mike Hughes
Mike Hughes makes paintings using acrylic oil of different of the natural world which mostly contain birds. Hughes believes that composition and lighting are the key to improving his art and will try to stretch his abilities by trying things like painting with a limited pallete
