Based in Austin TX, Helena Martin’s colorful murals can be seen throughout the US and abroad. Portraiture, flora, fauna and a rich use of color are some of the signatures of her aesthetic. Martin creates works for corporate and non-profit clients nationwide as well as teaching urban art workshops for children and adults alike.
Emily Ding
Emily Ding is a muralist from Texas. She most often has animals as her focus and uses a glowing spectrum of colorful spray paint to create her large scale artwork. Emily explores human emotions and experiences through expressive animals, using fur, feathers, and scales to tell a story.
Brian Joseph AKA Bydee
Brian Joseph started painting at the age of 33 in 1986. He created his own style based on the fictitious Bydee People, and thus he is called the Bydeeman. Bydee is an acronym that means Bringing You Delightful Entertaining Experiences. His paintings are as colorful as they are happy. The art focuses on education, promotes diversity and positivity in general. He is an artist, poet and a motivational speaker. Brian has 5 published books: Color Me Bydee, Happy Calypso Clowns, People Come In All Colors, Words of Bydee, We Love Teaching, and My Favorite Paintings. Some of his art commissions were for the Austin Revitalization Authority, National Alliance of Black School Educators, Texas Education Agency, Texas A&M University, City of Austin, Texas State Reading Association, The University of Texas, The Catholic Diocese of Corpus Christi, National Education Agency, National Association of Social Workers, Family Eldercare, and The North Texas Children’s Choir. Some of his mural commissions were for Colgate University, Auburn University, Advocacy Incorporated, Disability Rights of Texas, Best Elementary School, Kealing Middle School, Del Valle Junior High School, Blackshear Elementary, Del Valle Junior High, Oak Springs Elementary, and Cunningham Elementary School. Over the years Brian has received numerous awards and honors, including the TNOYS Spirit of Giving Award and The Austin Links Honoree of Community Arts Award. He was featured in KLRU television In Concept documentaries in 2008 and 2018. He has owned and operated Bydee Art Gallery in Austin for 25 years. Brian was born in Trinidad. He is a self-taught artist. He has a BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Tougaloo College and a MA in Urban Studies from Trinity University.
Brian resides in Austin with his wife Louise Lynch and is the father of 4 sons: Tijaon, Julian, Labeeb and Richmond, and also daughter Rosalinda. He has four grandchildren; Raeley, Naomi Rose, Kaden and Azra.
Dan Dollahon
Dan Dollahon is a Houston based professional artist, whose paintings and murals grace many homes and businesses in Houston, it’s surrounding areas, and beyond. He graduated from the Art Institute of Houston with an Associate Arts Degree and, since 1991, has operated a decorative painting and faux finishing company with his wife, Karen.
Charlotte Blanford
Charlotte Blanford has been painting most of her life, mainly in watercolors and oils. While living in Albuquerque she attended the Southwestern School of Art and was accepted into juried shows at the New Mexico State Fair and winning a second place award. While living in Thailand she taught art in Thai prisons for 5 years. Currently living in Houston she has had the priviledge to expand into acrylics by painting some murals and also church set/stage design.
Jessica Padilla
My name is Jessica Padilla but I am better known as Jexxi, an artist based in the greater Houston area. I strive to add beauty to the world with my art, but what I create is beyond a decorated surface. Art communicates a message. It evokes an emotion. And Studio Jexxi hopes to bring a smile to your day with every mural, private artwork, or live painting. I am committed to providing clients with the best possible experience through artistic expression.
Niz (Austin, TX)
Niz is a female stencil artist from Lima, Peru that specializes in myhtical photorealism. She got her start in the world of skateboarding and hip hop, hand painting and stencilling iconic figures on skatebaords and grip tape. Niz fuses multi layered stencil art with watered down housepaint to create ethereal portraits that are meant to connect us with the magic in nature and the mythos in every day life. She makes use of vibrant, somewhat monochromatic colors in her backgrounds, that mimic ecelectic scenes in nature. These streaky backgrounds are juxtaposed by crisp, photorealistic portraits. “I want my viewers to be reminded of their connection to primal human emotions as well as the magic and wonder of our collective unconscious…I want them to to feel a nostalgia for the places reflected in my backgrounds. It is less important to me that they identify form so much as it is that they connect emotionally and spiritually to the colors and imagery”. Recent clients include REI and XX. Niz lives and works in Austin, Texas.