Lola is a Philadelphia-based artist with deep roots. She graduated from the University of the Arts in 2014 with her BFA in Illustration. She works mainly in watercolor and gauche with ink, but has begun exploring other mediums as well. Heavily influenced by both fantasy art and tattoo design, her work is graphic in both shape and color separation but whimsical in imagery.
She has always had a fascination with musculature - celebrating the magic of being able to capture complex form with the simplicity of line. She loves finding comparisons between objects and placing simple with decorative design patterns.
Often working on uniquely-shaped canvases, she loves to find ways to divide the composition into pleasing dimensions. With a basis in tattoo flash, she creates designs that follow the form of the body, using value and line to not only decorate, but to enhance and contour the natural space.
As a child, Lola always had a sketch pad with her. Everyone told her she should become an artist, but that just didn't seem practical. After pursuing a degree in the sciences, she found her heart was not there. Art has always been and will always be her savior - a way to escape and a way to process. Her artwork represents more than just lines on a paper - it combines the tangible and the cerebral into one. Illustration provides a means to convey an understanding of the complexities that surround us - simplified to two dimensions and beautified on a page.
Lola takes life as a journey and a process -- but also as a destination. Each of her pieces is a glimpse of that goal - a reminder of the future and better things to come. She hopes her artwork can move people in the way that she was moved to make it.