Based out of Mercer Island, Washington, Lynn Skordal is a retired lawyer turned collage artist who creates works on paper from an island in the middle of the lake. Skordal's original passion and love for art was her motivation to make the transition from being a lawyer to becoming an artist...awesomesauce.

Nikos Gyftakis is an artist originally from Athens, Greece, and is currently based out of both Athens and Stockholm, Sweden. Gyftakis creates oil on canvas paintings of the psychedelic-kind that we love...

Hugo Barros is an artist from beautiful Lisbon, Portugal who creates handmade collages without any use of any digital manipulation. Looking through Barros' body of work, you can easily spot different collage pieces with recycled images that he reuses to create different visual variants of the work.

If you haven't seen Tom Beddard's previous feature from October 2011, take a moment now to check it out now. Trippy, right? Well, Dr. Beddard (yes, he has a PhD in laser physics from University of St Andrews, Scotland) is back at it with a new project, Fabergé Fractals, which was created using a WebGL-based fractal engine called Fractal Lab. Dr. Beddard currently is based out Glasgow, Scotland where he continues to create interactive museum exhibits and other awesomely trippy projects.

Kevin Beilfuss is an amazingly talented artist based out of Downers Grove, Illinois, USA who creates beautiful impressionist oil on canvas paintings. Beilfuss typically selects a lively color palette for his paintings, and his technique of loose, but deliberate brush strokes are well executed to make his portraits paintings truly something else. I mean DAMN...even his primarily sketches for his paintings look awesome.

We revisit Emily Burns who has a new series of paintings to present since her last feature on EK back in April 2010. Burns is currently based out of out both Lemont, Pennsylvania and New York City, New York.

César Biojo creates the types of paintings that I would kill a man for. Okay, probably not because I wouldn't last a minute in a maximum security prison, but like how I've said it many times before with other artists that we've featured on EK, I would punch a cute dog in the face for a painting.

China Mike (Mike Carr) is an artist currently based out of Bishopston, Bristol, UK where he continues to pump out paintings in his quaint and quite studio. “Process is as important as the end result. I don’t really feel a pressure to create realistically defined images these days. I want there to be a playfulness in my work, to not get bogged down in mechanical routines.”