Storytelling Artist Toshy
Toshy is a storyteller. He is a messenger. Toshy - an artist from the Netherlands (Breda 1970), is a multidisciplinary artist working in vast art fields. Toshy started his art career around the age of sixteen as a graffiti artist. And the graffiti style never disappears from his artworks. Being multidisciplinary, Toshy likes to intertwine his skills in illustration, music composing, graphic/product/interior design, typography, videography, photography, and copywriting to create a new style of communication. Communication becomes the main topic, the main idea behind his artworks. Plenty of his art pieces have the message delivered and exposed right on the canvas. Declarations, such as "Fear nothing but yourself," "Be One in a Million be a light to others," "Love Now," "Hold on to what you believe in," and many more, are not only acting as inspiring quotes but also as an inner statement of the artist himself.
Toshy recently started his fashion line, rug collection, and first 18k jewel broadening the art understanding and erasing the lines of where art concepts should begin and where they should end. Toshy is very active on social media, sharing his daily journey through art and sending love to everyone. For Toshy, art is about messages and stories to tell.
Toshy describes his style as; positive messages transformed into products with an urban but luxurious design
Art in every possible form, storytelling art!
References
Fragrance is who you are! - Pitti Florence
In commission Toshy created the art project – Fragrance is who you are -.
A video installation and canvas exhibition at PITTI Fragrance in Florence Italy.
“Photographic compositions include faces of multiple ethnicities that make up images of different people. The concept symbolizes the idea that the perfume can affect each individual’s personality.”
Fashion
Interior
TOSHY X LEOXX
TOSHY X STUDIO LAWRENCE
TOSHY X NORMANN COPENHAGEN
SALONE DEL MOBILE MILANO
It's all about storytelling
and positive messages
Toshy icons
Art / Photography
Diverse
TOSHY X STEP ABOARD FRAGANCE MILANO X GALERIES LAFAYETTE
Augmented Reality Art
Watch the video to see how it works.
Community Art - Love Now!
Toshy travels the world and shares the “Love Now!” message with his art. Not only in international galleries but also in public places, on fashion, walls, and canvas. In November 2015 Toshy went to Berlin and shared his artwork with passengers, in December he did the same in Amsterdam. He painted the message on walls in cities like Barcelona and London and sent and gave many artworks to strangers all over the world.
July 2022 Toshy took part of Rave the planet in Berlin. A DJ Truck showed his “Connecting Hearts”message to 300.000 dancing people.
Now 2023 more than 1500 people all over the world own a unique handpainted Love Now! Artwork are connected with each other.