Kellas Campbell

Kellas's work has featured in home decor magazines as well as in Singapore’s Tatler Magazine: in an interview with the Affordable Art Fair director, he selected ‘Time to Leave the Nest’ as one of his favourite purchases. Along with artists such as Mark Ryden and the creator of Pusheen, Campbell’s work appeared in the 2019 coffee-table book, Cats Rock: Felines in Contemporary Art and Pop Culture by Elizabeth Daley

Kellas grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba and outside Chicago, Illinois. Her trusty Siamese cat, Charlie I, was by her side throughout. She now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with her rescue cat, Noir. After 14 years together, Charlie II, her muse and model — she is the cat who looks at you from almost all her drawings — died on October 22, 2019.

Kellas learned to draw from her mother, Helen, a commercial artist. When her mother was hospitalized in 2004, Kellas returned to drawing. She started with frogs and other creatures from National Geographic magazines in the ICU waiting room. Although Helen was unable to fully wake up from a coma, whenever Kellas had a drawing to show her, she opened her eyes and appraised it silently. Helen died in 2004.

A year later, Kellas adopted her cat muse Charlie II, and began draw...

Her work can be seen at the Leith Collective in Edinburgh.