Nora Kelly is an illustrator, oil painter, and muralist based in Montreal, Quebec. She lives with her partner, an Argentinian tattoo-artist and muralist, and her Boston Terrier named Squid. On the weekend, she sings and plays guitar in her alt-country band called the Nora Kelly Band.
Can we start by talking about the process behind Canadian Architectural Styles, because it represents decades of, not just writing on your part, but observation and field work as well….
I usually come to new stories with either a first line or a first image in mind. With Hysteria, it was an image – almost a moment, really. A young mother, lounging on a wooden raft in a quiet pond with her child, suddenly is witness to a strange and unexplainable event. It’s a hot and lazy day, the woman is half-dozing. She looks up to see a second child, a strange little girl, has appeared out of nowhere.
“I have always held an affirmation and interest in the tangible visual footprints of rocks, bone, and sediment. Newfoundland affords my art a front row seat to its natural raw…