World’s Best Digital Artists: KARAMPALASIS, BOLEN, OTUONIE, CRISTINA, SAFAR, LI & LAVENDAR / 2024 Art Collectors Choice Awards

Thom Bierdz
5 min readApr 2, 2024

Artists from 62 countries competed in the 2024 ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS. 20 international art collectors scored 50 categories of online images covering drawing, painting, sculpture, digital and photography.

The winning works will be revealed in this column one category at a time.

The ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS winners in CATEGORY 47. DIGITAL ART — REPRESENTATIONAL represent GREECE, JAPAN, USA, CANADA & FRANCE.

WINNER SITES: CATEGORY 47. DIGITAL ART — REPRESENTATIONAL

1st Place SAVVAS KARAMPALASIS GREECE https://www.artstation.com/savvas_karampalasis “Mystical Swamp” Digital art.

2nd Place — Tie TERESA BOLEN JAPAN https://teresabolen.com “Tommy” 18x24" Digital painting.

2nd Place — Tie SAVVAS KARAMPALASIS GREECE https://www.artstation.com/savvas_karampalasis “Parallax Reality Portal” Digital art.

3rd Place — Tie TERESA BOLEN JAPAN https://teresabolen.com “Rev. Kitakawara’s Tiger” 21x29.7cm Digital painting.

3rd Place — Tie DEVORA OTUONIE USA “Pink Or Brown?” Digital art.

3rd Place — Tie CRISTINA CANADA https://instagram.com/cristina.tmp “Glass Room” 250x184cm Digital.

4th Place MATHIEU SAFAR FRANCE https://www.artmajeur.com/mathieu-safar “Di Sorrento — Monica” 76x134cm Digital art.

5th Place — Tie ESTELLA LI USA “Imagine” Digital on iPad.

5th Place — Tie CRISTINA CANADA https://instagram.com/cristina.tmp “Double” 175x332cm Digital.

6th Place — Tie DIAMANTE LAVENDAR USA https://diamante-lavendar.pixels.com/ “Vicissitudes” Various sizes Mixed media digital art.

6th Place — Tie TERESA BOLEN JAPAN https://teresabolen.com “Michael” 11x16" Digital painting.

ART COLLECTORS can see the hundreds of winning images and corresponding contact info to all the artists here::

In 2024, ART COLLECTORS CHOICE AWARDS had submissions from these 62 countries: Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Denmark, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tobago, Togo, Trinidad, Turkey, United Arabian Emirates, UK, Ukraine, USA, Vietnam, Wales, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

20 international art collectors asked to score art:

Andrew Cameron & Marcus Hamilton — Australia

Jason Stuckless — Toronto, Ontario

Floyd M. Elwell, III — Rancho Mirage, California

Jan Gold — Roseville, California

Michael Gregg Michaud — Los Angeles, California

Judi Evans — Los Angeles, California

Alec Wilder — Los Angeles / Las Vegas / New Orleans

Eddie Dyer — Los Angeles / Las Vegas / New Orleans

Michelle Foglesong Wilson — Las Vegas

Thomas Zora — Las Vegas

Paul Iacono — Chicago

Ron Lundin — Naples, Florida / Chicago, Illinois / Vail, Colorado

Jay H. Brewer — Orlando, Florida

Celeste Miller — St. Petersburg, Florida

Alan McMullen — Fannettsburg, Philadelphia

Brian Townley — Waco, Texas

Blaine L. Richards-Miller — Wichita Falls, Texas

Aimee Unakis — Georgetown, Illinois

Karen Valentine — Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Mitchell Antesky — Toledo Ohio

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Thom Bierdz

One of Medium’s TOP ART CONTRIBUTORS, award-winning author, actor, film-maker, painter. 12 books: 6 on art. President of WAA & AAA & ACCA.