PIOTR JABŁOŃSKI
When it’s time to go on a journey to the bleak, outer edges of the universe, where reality fragments into abstract dimensions, then Polish illustrator Piotr Jabłoński is the ideal tour guide. Like a gamekeeper of the grotesque, he conjures up strange, elongated beings to populate those cold and shadowy realms on the darker side of Purgatory.
Yet when you ask him about his highly individual style, Piotr doesn’t mention winged demons, doorways to darkness or the hideous armies of the undead. For him, painting fantasy and sci-fi imagery is all about a constant passion to learn and create. “It’s an evolutionary process,” he explains. “My style is a mix of inspiration, mistakes and the lack of skill to do something better. The final effect is not 100
