Paint & mark-making
Original acrylic and mixed-media works begin by hand, one gesture and layer at a time.
Art that moves between canvas & tomorrow.
Future-facing concept fashion, cosmic colour and mixed-media paintings by multidisciplinary artist Kellyann Nolan.
My first book · Photo book
Conceptual Fashion
Neo Cyberpunk × NeoGoth Futuristic Wear — 39 concept-fashion portraits, my take on what the future will be wearing. Paperback, out now on Amazon.
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Canvas to couture
Cosmic Yellow Flower began as an acrylic painting, every petal by hand. Then it left the canvas — the artwork transferred onto fabric as a wearable fashion art piece carrying her design. Painted by hand, worn out loud.
Cosmic Yellow Flower
Worn, not framed
The transformation
My journey as a conceptual fashion designer started with a simple refusal: my artwork was never going to stay on the canvas.
I paint by hand — every petal, every layer of acrylic, every texture built over hours. But a painting on a wall is a finished conversation, and I wanted the conversation to keep moving. So I began transferring my artwork onto fabric, turning my paintings into wearable fashion art pieces that carry my designs out into the world.
Cosmic Yellow Flower is the clearest expression of that journey so far. It began as an acrylic bloom on a cosmic-black canvas, painted entirely by hand. Then it left the frame — the artwork transferred onto a halter top and flared pants, worn, photographed, alive. The painting didn't end. It changed form.
This is what conceptual fashion means to me: the artwork doesn't decorate the garment. The garment becomes the artwork's next life.
People sometimes assume that because I work with AI in my concept fashion, the physical craft isn't there. It is. I paint. I design. I make. The digital tools are part of my process, but every piece starts and ends with my hands — and now my work leaves the studio on bodies, not just walls.
Painted by hand, worn out loud. That's the journey, and it's just getting started.
Future fashion / Poster edition
Concept-fashion images shaped through colour, styling and a fearless futuristic lens — presented as collectible wall posters.
Silver Deco Siren
Silver-age glamour meets future machine — art deco lines cut for a cyberpunk silhouette.
Sequin Signal
A hooded dress in full gold sequin — the signal is shine, and it’s broadcasting.
Electric Couture
High-voltage tailoring — couture silhouettes charged with neon current.
Victorian / Industrial
Victorian structure rebuilt with industrial hardware — neo-goth cyber at its most architectural.
Blue Cyber collection
A full AI fashion collection in electric blue — the coldest colour in my warmest world.
Urban Cyber-Goth Vision
Structured leather, lace fishnets and dramatic hardware cut against neon pink — dark alternative styling pushed into high fashion.
Collections
Canvas to couture, one painting at a time — each collection carries a single artwork across a family of looks. More collections are on the way.
Collection 01The Buttercup Collection
My butterfly painting in full maximalist bloom — a kaftan, a jumpsuit and a gown, all from one canvas.
Digital art prints
Ten concept-fashion pieces from the board and the shop — instant downloads, CA$15 each on Etsy.
Rooftop Reign
Pink Tinsel
Neon Bell Gown
Leopard Robe
Neon Lime
Spiked Moto
Neon Hood
Pink Fur Hood
Scarlet Vamp
Blue Cyber
Painted by hand
Colour, gesture and dimensional materials meet in works that move from botanical abundance to cosmic abstraction. Select an image to see it larger.
Blooming Dimensions in Blue and Lime
And You
A beaded-mosaic female torso — hundreds of beads set by hand into the curves of a body. It’s a portrait without a face: everybody and nobody, built dot by dot where pointillism meets the craft table. One of the most labour-heavy pieces I’ve ever made, and it shows.
Ember Cosmos
Ember Cosmos burns at the edge of the night sky — deep cosmic darks lit from within by ember orange and red. I built the surface up in layers until the heat felt like it was rising off the canvas. The quietest loud painting I own.
Dragonfly Dahlia
A dragonfly caught mid-hover over a dahlia in full bloom — two kinds of flight in one frame. The petals go on thick; the wings are barely there. I paint a lot of gardens, but this one moves.
Solar Swallowtail
A swallowtail butterfly in full solar flare — wings wide, colour turned all the way up. Butterflies keep showing up in my work because they’re the original transformation story. This one doesn’t do subtle.
Cosmic Yellow Flower
An acrylic bloom on a cosmic-black canvas, painted entirely by hand — every petal, every layer. Then it left the frame: the artwork transferred onto a halter top and flared pants as a wearable fashion art piece. The painting didn’t end. It changed form.
Electric Garden
A garden wired for voltage — botanical forms buzzing with neon charge. This is where my paintings start talking to my concept fashion: nature, but make it cyberpunk. Every leaf feels like it’s humming.
The Guardian Spirits of the Jungle
A guardian figure rising out of dense jungle — part protector, part wilderness itself. I wanted the greens to feel ancient and the eyes to feel present. Hang it somewhere it can watch the room.
Cosmic Lion
A lion set against the cosmos — mane going gold, eyes locked on you. Lions are courage with fur; the cosmos is everything we don’t understand yet. I painted the space between those two things.
Radiant Garden Bliss
Radiant Garden Bliss is available as a fine-art print — all the colour and bloom of the original, made for your wall. A garden that never needs watering and never goes out of season.
Dot Constellation
Pure dotwork — thousands of individual dots building constellations out of patience. No brushstrokes, just points of light finding each other across the dark. The slowest, most meditative way I know to paint a sky.
Galactic Flower Star
Gilded Metamorphosis
Jewels of the Garden
Cosmic Energy
Solar Vibrations
One creative language
The work moves across media, but the instinct stays the same: build a world, give it texture, then push the colour until it feels alive.
Material & embellishment
Jewels, florals, metallics and dimensional textures turn the surface into an object.
Future image-making
Concept fashion extends the same visual world into characters, silhouettes and collectible posters.
Kellyann Nolan
A Toronto multidisciplinary artist and visual storyteller working across painting, mixed media, digital image-making and concept fashion.
She paints by hand — acrylic and mixed media, built up in layers until the surface turns dimensional. Her work is driven by the cosmos, intricate pattern, botanical form, neon colour and the drama of transformation: gardens that hum with voltage, butterflies in solar flare, lions set against deep space. It moves freely between physical making and imagined futures without losing the trace of the artist’s hand.
The work refused to stay on the canvas. Kellyann began transferring her paintings onto fabric, turning them into wearable fashion art pieces — garments that carry her designs out into the world. The artwork doesn’t decorate the garment. The garment becomes the artwork’s next life.
Her exhibition history includes multiple RAW Artists showcases in Toronto, including the ECHO showcase in December 2024; three presentations with Public Display Agency — Lumen at Parkdale Hall in May 2025, Fathom in May 2026 and core in August 2026; and three shows at Show Gallery — a solo exhibition in January 2025, a dual show with fellow artist Matthew Green in February 2026, and the 2nd Annual Holiday Collective in December 2025.
In October 2026 she submitted a Canada Council for the Arts grant application for The Loud Future: a body of large-scale textural paintings and projection work on a single idea — that the future won’t look as different as we think, just bolder. Louder colours, louder textures, louder life.
- Group exhibition (upcoming) · Show Gallery
- Solo, dual and collective exhibitions · Show Gallery
- Lumen, Fathom and core · Public Display Agency
- RAW Artists showcases · Toronto
Find the work
Browse original paintings, posters, art prints and products through Kellyann’s established shop platforms.
Originals + posters
District Shop
Art Designs by Kellyann at Pancakes & Booze.
Print on demand
Fine Art America
Wall art, home décor and selected designs.
Fine art profile
Saatchi Art
View Space Odyssey and artist details.
The concept-fashion poster series is live now — instant downloads on my Etsy shop. Shop the posters on Etsy 🖤
Follow the worlds as they arrive.
New paintings, fashion reels, process details and exhibition updates across Kellyann’s social channels.
