Mike Orduna

Mike Orduna

Artist Mike Orduna has a gift for translating reality into subtly familiar lines, patterns, and shapes.  Against a backdrop of watercolor, Mike infuses military-esque, culturally transcendent symbols with free-form, artistic explosions.  The conflagration of color in...
* Jonathan M. Foerster

* Jonathan M. Foerster

Jonathan Michael Foerster’s art is a rich, evocative combination of organic and crystalline elements, that creates a haunting mood.  His images are the manifestation of spiritual premonitions; it’s as though we’ve been given eyes to see the effects...
Joshua M. Smith

Joshua M. Smith

Creative Tempest remembers stealing the ink from comic panels in the Sunday newspaper with a sheet of flattened Silly Putty, and we are sure artist Joshua M. Smith does too. However, the images Joshua M. Smith creates come to us not like they are lifted from the...
Adhemas Batista

Adhemas Batista

The visions created by Adhemas Batista are like dessert for the retinas. Our eyes spend so many hours each day munching on uninspiring, insipid flavors: a school desk, a white board, a cubicle wall, a linoleum floor, and countless other tiresome views, but in the...
Ryohei Hase

Ryohei Hase

There is a book in the Goosebumps series penned by R.L. Stein that Ryohei Hase and us at Creative Tempest must share a common love for, The Haunted Mask. It is a story of a gruesome Halloween mask that adheres to the wearer’s face and becomes a living new visage. The...