Kathleen Lolly

In Kathleen Lolley's drawings and paintings, almost all eyes are always on the viewer. Because of this, her paintings have a stillness that feels a little like you've just stumbled upon a group of deer in the woods that are about to run. Instead of deer, though, her world is full of cyclops owls and trees that fight back.

Lolley was originally trained as an animator at Calarts and worked on Spongebob after graduation. Despite this, her work is refreshingly dissimilar to commercial animation, although she can clearly tell a story with one image. She currently lives and makes art in Kentucky where she was raised.

More of her work can be seen at Lolleyland.com.