About

Welcome to the Diving Bell! My name is Björn and I’m the brain behind all the images you see on this site. All my life I’ve been creating pictures, whether as a painter, illustrator, art teacher, printmaker, photographer, or designer. The idea behind the Diving Bell is to combine my paintings with photos and various digital elements to explore three of my strongest influences: contemporary abstraction, pop art, and Art Nouveau. At the same time, I want to offer my artwork at attainable prices.

If there is a unifying theme to the artwork I want to offer here, it’s exploration. My process for creating everything you see here is experimental. I take two or more elements and mix them together with the goal of finding something surprising. Some of these combinations might seem a bit odd or maybe a bit out of character if you are familiar with my art, but that is exactly the point. This is an opportunity to take advantage of digital tools to make some risky moves and nudge against both what I can physically do with paint, and what I normally expect my work to look like. I'm not interested in selling prints that are simply duplicates of my paintings, so each design is created specifically with the print format in mind.

You can expect to see fresh new designs released on a monthly basis, so I hope you’ll dive in with me as I keep creating.

To see more of my art and illustration work, please visit my art website: bjornbauerart.com

Thank you!