Artists | I-topia

Kevin Welslau

Kevin Welslau – painter / musician – antwerp, belgium
a true versitale artist.
Very well known in the Belgian reggae scene as MC
‘missing link’ and drummer of “the spellbreakers”
his priorities, besides being a father are music & painting.
in his paintings Monkeys, nature, life and death are
topics which recur a lot. always in a surrealistic world as seen through his eyes.

He created the logo for I-Topia and artwork for the Roots & Culture events in Antwerp are also painted by him. You can see them on:
www.facebook.com/rootsandculture.be

for i-topia his artwork is always inspired by music. designs made by kevin: Rockers, African dub, chalice,
the lion and ofcourse the logo
You can contact kevin through us or on facebook if you want any artwork done by him.

https://www.facebook.com/missing.link.1485

Philip Paquet

Philip Paquet is an illustrator, comics artist, tattooër, Painter and bassPlayer but above all a storyteller.

Born (1973), raised and based in AntwerP, Belgium.

Music is a recurring and imPortant, insPiring theme.

As an illustrator he delivers artwork for magazines, theatre comPanies and recordlabels among others.

Variation is important :

Got to keep on moving, got to keep on sharpening the skills.

Paquet’s jazz graphic novels Louis Armstrong, Snapshots and Playin‘/Smilin‘/Fightin‘/Cookin have „an unmistakable sense of nostalagia“ : the golden jazzera lives on in these books.

philip is one of our in-house artists and delivered already several designs amongs this one.
So if you like his style… more designs of Philip are in the pipeline!

www.PhiliPPaquet.com

Andreas Peeters

ANDREAS PEETERS (1984, LEUVENl IS AN ILLUSTRATOR AND VIDEOGRAPHER WITH A PASSION FDR VINYL AND BLACK MUSIC AND HAS BEEN BEEN HEAD OVER HEELS INTO ROOTS, DUB AND REGGAE SINCE HIS STUDENT DAYS.
HE LIVES AND WORKS IN ANTWERP, WHERE HE TEACHES ILLUSTRATION AND MOTION DESIGN AT AP HDGESCHDDL. IN 2D15, HE RELEASED THE DOCUMENTARY BELDUB.
TO DATE, HE CONTINUES TO PUBLISH NEW CONTENT INSPIRED BY THE INTERNATIONAL ROOTS, DUB & SOUNDSYSTEM SCENE ON THE BELDUB YOUTUBE CHANNEL.
WWW.BELDUB.BE

Juli Jupter

Born and raised in Ilheus, Bahia, Brasil 1988. Juli is
a self taught artist with a big urge to express herself. Through drawing, dancing, singing and making music.

Coming from a home schooled base everything she
makes is based on talent, the urge to perfection and an obsession to be a full-time artist. She is an artist in many ways. As the lead singer for the
Belgian Reggaeband ‘Spellbreakers’ she is strongly connected with the local reggae community.

In her paintings you see fairy and idyllic characters but in the details you can see also the hard life she comes from. With the typical, colorful South-American style the paintings look like they have been taken straight out of a fairy tale.
If you want to order a design by Juli Jupter for your flyer, poster or a print for your wall at home, you can get in contact with her through our webshop or
you can contact her also in person on Instagram @jupter.artworks

Griet vingerhoets

Griet vingerhoets is passionated about drawing and makes art with all materials available. Wood, paper, metal…

she spends a lot of her free time on making most beautiful work. being Part of the first i-topia expo Griet made wooden figures in the shape of animals and used them to make a holder for old fashioned music cassettes. Also a big recycled wooden circle where she burned on her inspiration for this T-shirt.
This work is called: “promised land“

You can see and buy the cassette holders in our
webshop! You can also send request to order your own animal by sending mail to itopiawear@Gmail.com
Griet will Get in touch with you and see what the possibilities are.

Pictures of her other works can be seen on:
facebook.com/itopiawear

Ethel Laka

is a female Tattoo artist in South Africa, Johannesburg.

She specializes in fine Arts as her speciality and proceeded to take up tattooing as a career from around 2004. She owns and runs her own professional studio at home.

She have been part builder of the Kebra Ethiopia sound system since its inception and has a deep love and
passion for Reggae music and Sound System Culture.

This has been a close to heart project as it infuses her love of art and creativity within the Reggae movement as she has come to know it in her homestead, deeply rooted in daily live.

You can see more of her fine works or get in contact for artwork questions on:
www.facebook.com/etheltattooartist

RESISTANCE!
We affirm our cultural essence and spirit with these T-shirt prints in Association with I-Topia. As is our sound system ethos, a continuation and unrelenting challenge to systematic oppression.

Thereby using Reggae music as an imperative means to black consciousness, social grace and humanism.

Gorka González Delgado

Gorka González Delgado,

is a young designer from Basque Country, in the north of Spain, close to the french border.
Designer on his own, and cofounder of the Gudaridub community in spain. Related to reggae and especially, with the Spanish sound system culture. he is Known for his sound system vectors throughout the planet and his photoshop montages, relating famous people to this dubculture. he focuses mainly on the design of posters, logos and other types of graphic works, generally related to reggae.

For i-topia he made a design called “steppa dub” which was inspired by the open air, free soundsystem sessions they organise on the steppe (or mountains) in spain. They take a generator and soundsystem and have their free dances. Music for the people!

You can find his, mostly black & white, pictures and other works on his instagram account:
https://www.instagram.com/gorkadub/
get in contact with gorka on facebook “gorkadub” or through mail: gorkadub@gmail.com

Kads MIIDA – Painter – live painting – tokyo, japan.

KaDs Is at the center of the Japanese reggae paIntIng scene. In 1988 he began worKIng as an artIst. He paInteD murals anD combIneD lIve performances of paIntIng wIth reggae musIc. In 1992 he went to JamaIca for two months. The art anD musIc encountereD on the trIp haD a large Influence on hIs worK. MeetIng RastafarIans DurIng hIs tIme In JamaIca ImbueD hIs art wIth a clear DIrectIon.

In 1994 anD 1995 KaDs tooK a trIp to EthIopIa anD InDIa. He createD a mural at a RastafarIan commune In Shashemane, EthIopIa that Is stIll there toDay. BacK In Japan he haD an
art exhIbItIon from where hIs NyahbInghI oIl paIntIng spreaD arounD the worlD In poster form.

PaIntIng In front of an auDIence whIle lIstenIng to reggae musIc Is KaDs’ orIgInal style. He Is one of the pIoneers of lIve paIntIng performances In Japan.
In 2008, he createD a serIes of popular lIve paIntIng events calleD “LIve PaIntIng SESSION”. In 2009 he publIsheD a pIcture booK calleD “Go To JamaIca” baseD on hIs trIp. The fIrst prIntIng solD out In Japan. In the future he plans to gIve lIve paIntIng performances overseas anD publIsh a booK of hIs graphIc art that he has accumulateD over the past 20 years.

Have a look on Kads Miida website: http://www.Kads.net/

RaS Mykha – DeSign for I-Topia called: “Ethiopian Dance”

He iS a verSatile artiSt who drawS, paintS and make muSic.

aS a painteR and IlluStRatoR he released a childRenS book called “The SonaR SySteM” in collaboRation with “the Sound SySteM cultuRe pRoject”. He Also cReated Many ARtwoRkS foR labelS like hiS own “CRy In Soul RecoRdS” but alSo “Indica DubS” and “DubOMatic RecoRdS”.
Musically He collaboRated with Many labelS, PRoduceRS oR Sound SySteMS and BandS like: “Lion RootS, JahSpoRa RecoRdS, Indica DubS, RootS ISta PoSSe, Final Call, RootS Meditation, Own MiSSion RecoRdS, Belleville inteR, Dub Livity, etc.”.

In 2010 he cReated hiS label “CRy In Soul RecoRdS”, on which he ReleaSed the “Give ThankS and PRaiSe” and “Mighty Jahovia”. In 2015 he cReated with Patate RecoRdS the Label “ Belleville inteRnational Dub Plate Style”
few titleS of hiS DiScogRaphy are:

People HungRy 7’’(JahSpoRa RecoRdS 2009), StRong Medication 10’’ (RootS iSta poSSe RecoRdS 2010), BuS To Zion 10’’ (RootS iSta poSSe RecoRdS 2010), The Run 7’’ (JahSpoRa RecoRdS 2011), TRadeRS 12’’ (Dina MuSic 2012), Raw FiSheRMan 10’’ (CongoS Label 2012), Dub SoldieRS 12’’ (MyStical Powa 2013), EveRy Day 7’’ (weldeRS RecoRdS 2013), Mighty Jahovia 10’’ (CRy in Soul RecoRdS 2013), I&I Believe 12’’ (Dub O Matic 2014) Rootikal ShowcaSe LP (Belleville RecoRdS 2015) WaR Ina Babylon 10”
(Belleville international 2016)

You can find hiS workS on InStagram, Facebook and diScogS by entering a Search on “raS mykha”

Jata
is a self-taught illustrator who
created since 2015 a soulful and
imaginary world full of animals, musicians and borderless landscapes As a Musician and nature lover, he is constantly seeking for new ideas and pics up inspiration and tricks in graphic arts, paintings, music and the nature that surrounds him. From his studio, based in a small village by the river Garonne and the Pyrénées mountains, he draws what ever crosses his mind and has shaped, in a couple of years,
a multidimensional work. from black & white ink drawings to colorfull
artwork, posters, record sleeves,
bottle labels or calendars.
To see more of Jata’s work Please visit: www.jata-illustration.com

Seppe Seppe

visual artist, who goes with the name Tz’unun ART.
Active in multiple disciplines within the art world, Digital & analogue. It’s always interesting to combine these two, he Says. Always searching for a way to create things you can’t do digital in an analogue way and vice versa. He currently Studies Graphic Design at School Of Arts – KASK In Ghent. His work is often monochrome, especially black and white. He has a certain way of working with basic materials which he uses to create an overall rough or raw image, where in between the roughness always lies in these little details that make the whole image interesting to look at and discover new things every time you look.
Seppe Seppe is always interested in collabs, projects or artwork swaps.

Contact: Seppetzunun@hotmail.com

Facebook: facebook.com/TzununArt.deSign
Instagram: @Tz_unun