Hi, I'm Alessandra Kelley. I paint (and draw) the weird, the lost, the forgotten, and the illuminating, based on readings of mythology, history, original source material, and just about any odd thing I come across.

I'm also a trained scientific illustrator, part time cartoonist, clothier and costumer, occasional social activist, and lifelong player of roleplaying games. At various times all of these work their way into my art.

Conversation (Griffin) A girl, a griffin, a weathered granite outcropping. Words pass between them.	Surreal Rider A dreamlike surreal rider on a great red human-headed beast in a cold blue landscape. Is it a harpy? Is it a sphinx? A bit of mystery and fantasy.	Chi-Fi Chicago sci-fi! King Kong as a giant cow! On fire! Climbing the Carbide & Carbon building! While our heroes fly a 1917 Curtiss JN-4D "Jenny" biplane!
Foxlight Mounted fox specimens gaze on preserved pigeons and ungulate skeletons in multilayered reflections at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.	Hera Geometrica Hera, queen of heaven and the gods, god of marriage and putting the world in order, in an iconic egg tempera portrait.	Icons A quiet contemplative painting of children in a mysterious landscape underlain with buried spiritual icons.
Selkie Wife A folklore fairytale pencil illustration of a seal-woman taking leave of her human husband and child.	Spring (Hades and Persephone) Hades and Persephone, a romance for the ages. An egg tempera painting of the love between the silence of the underworld and the sweet growth of spring, based on Greek mythology.	Athena Rondel Athena. God of wisdom, of weaving and craft - and spiders. She sits in a spiderweb of hyperbolic geometry, spinning and sewing the mythic garments of enlightenment.
Apparition A colored pencil drawing of an eerie harpy-like creature perched on a branch above a suburban night landscape.	Bus Stop Pen and Ink	Olympia
We Are What We Do