feature: see bristol-based painter tom rawles’ surreal, renaissance-inspired portraits

Tom Rawles is a fine artist and painter from Bristol. His artwork mainly consists of stylized, sometimes surreal, portraits. Rawles has been commissioned to do album art, as well. “[My] works address contemporary culture through Renaissance-esque scenes, a modern world where halos are more bling than holy,” he writes. Check out some of our favorites, below.

Dayme Arocena

Album art for Royalty Noise’s “Common Ground”

‘3 Women’

‘Wrapped’

‘The Bravest Man In The Universe’ Bobby Womack

Jay Electronica

Portrait of Thando called ‘nature vs nurture’

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