Kathleen Lolley grew up split between Louisville, KY and Pittsburgh, PA. She started painting during those formidable years of farm life and life as a surgeon﨎 daughter. Her work depicts characters and stories that are playfully unusual. Two-dimensional figures painted on old parchment paper appear to be a part of a complex story- as if the characters escaped the pages that bound them. She moved to Los Angeles five years ago to attend CalArts for animation, where she experimented with handcrafted stop motion characters. In addition to working on various commercial animations, including Nickelodeon﨎 Sponge Bob Squarepants and titles for the movie Willard, Kathleen has created a handful of short films. Her influences are Leanora Carrington, Remidios Varo, Max Ernst, folk tales, poetry, comics and old books.

Kathleen Lolley’s Lolleyland