Map painting

Mixed media photo transfer and encaustic painting by Jeff League of crows over antique map of Antarctica.

English artist Ed Fairburn (previously) uses vintage road maps and star charts as canvases for drawn portraits. Cross-hatched patterns and shaded regions inside roads, borders, and rivers assimilate into the contours of faces as if the images had always been secretly hidden in the map’s topography. “In his hands, both built infrastructure and natural phenomena echo the organic human form,” shares Mike Wright Gallery. “National highway systems become capillaries, and the tangle of Paris’…

Wilderness inspired fine art prints and quality outdoor goods. Mountain landscape paintings on vintage maps. Premium bandanas, enamel camp mugs, greeting cards, hats, vinyl stickers.

Figurative male image, created entirely from old maps, atlases and other cartographic sources.

bic biro drawing on a antique map

Maps of craft traditions across the states of India, created by the Dastkari Haat Samiti, a national association of craftspeople, which carried out a survey from 1994 to 2010, and initiated collaborations between researchers, designers and craftspeople, named on the back of the map for each state. Information was recorded on traditional crafts, painting and handloom traditions, as also associated arts and institutions, like musical instruments, ritual practices, traditional markets, and…

An atlas becomes an artist canvas