| Artist | FAYBEL (Ellie Nesbitt) | Resides | Canada |
| Website | faybelarts.com | Medium | Digital Painting |
| Print Shop | faybelarts.com/digital-originals icanvas.com/faybel quirkyfox.co.nz/faybel (limited – edition) | [email protected] | |
| Follow the Artist | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | Cara | Themes | Original Fairytales & Folklore Mythology Pop Surrealism Imaginative Realism Dark Fantasy Big Eyes Detailed Textures & Sensory Experiences Curious Creatures Expressive Women Vibrant Face Paint & Intricate Ornamentation Nature & Floral Motifs Portraiture Illustration |
| Press | faybelarts.com/aboutellie |
About the artist
FAYBEL (Ellie Nesbitt) is a self-taught digital painter, gallery and cover artist. She currently resides in the Great Lakes lowlands of Ontario, Canada.
Her digital paintings are sensory symphonies: textures distilled from acute tactile experiences and melodious memories, extrapolations of her heightened-sensory life on the autism spectrum.
FAYBEL’s digital portraits feature compelling expressive eyes, at times quite large, with surrealist flare. Her painted works derive from tales that sing of peoples and creatures from uncanny realms and misbegotten places. From a collection of original narratives, she laces her fantastical characters with careful brushwork into digital colour spaces.
Addled by severe osteoporosis and multiple compression fractures, Ellie uses the digital medium for meditative and expressive release. In the supine position, she paints with a suspended monitor, engaging steadfastly with those who enjoy her creations and follow her journey on social media (Instagram).
FAYBEL has formed a group of eight dynamic, driven, professional digital painters for gallery exhibitions around the world, with showings planned to begin as early as 2026. Through Beautiful Bizarre’s art prize and directory, along with Marvelous Art Group and Infected by Art, FAYBEL discovered several of the team’s members. Many have specifically been affiliated with the Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory: Garis Edelweiss, Farnoosh Aryan and Sara Lee. Eli Birdie, Tero Porthan, Damjian Gjorgievski and Justine Florentino were also selected as founding members. “Our entire team is thankful beyond words to Beautiful Bizarre! It is my [FAYBEL’s] personal intent to expand our initiative into a collective/association for helping digital artists with entering the gallery world. Digital painters, along with other artist subtypes in our medium, are being excluded from galleries and the realm of fine art significantly at this time: the group of us, whom I have organized and directed during our preliminary phases, are working hard to help change the negative narrative towards our medium.”
Artwork Themes & Subject Matter
Big expressive eyes introduce the viewer to the dynamic personalities of FAYBEL’s (Ellie Nesbitt) fairytale characters, while detailed textures evoke sensory experiences beyond the visual form.
Nature and floral motifs, colourful face-paint and intricate ornamentation are infused with vibrant palettes with fervent reference to mythology and folkloric elements.
Original fairytales with notes of strange sci-fi to the dark fantastical are underpinned with characters, intricate magical objects and curious creature companions in artist FAYBEL’s (Ellie Nesbitt) digital portrait works. Whether from the tale of an animate undercity dwelling rag doll and her suspect baking overlord or the narrative of an android princess from a realm interred in the gullet of a sleeping kaiju-like monster, these uncanny paintings are a glimpse into themes of friendship, devotion and endurance in FAYBEL’s (Ellie Nesbitt) collection of unpublished original fiction narratives expressed through contemporary, (pop) surreal, imaginative realism and (dark) fantasy art styles.
Press
FAYBEL’s (Ellie Nesbitt) works have been published in notable magazines, books and online sources including Infected by Art Book Vol. 11, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, 365 Art + Magazine, Marvelous Art Magazine, Marvelous Art’s Top 50 Artists to Watch in 2022 & 2023, Bourbon Penn Issue 28, Women United ART MAGAZINE and Infected by Art Book Vol. 10. She will be in an upcoming full editorial with PEPPER Magazine, in High Art’s 2024 Art Book, in Infected by Art Book Vol. 13 and is acting as chief editor and cover artist of an upcoming TOKOSHU B specialty issue of 365 Art + Magazine in Japan, “Art of the Phoenix: Path to the Inner Self”.
Upcoming Exhibitions
| When | Exhibition | Gallery |
| March 2025 | Group Exhibition: “The Mystical Market” | The Gallery St. Catharines, ON. Canada |
| April 2025 | Group Exhibition: “Penumbra 10 Year Anniversary Dark Art Show” | Curio Art Gallery Portugal (Online) |
| August 2025 | Group Exhibition: “Wild Card” | Nanny Goat Gallery Petaluma, CA. USA |
| December 2025 | Solo Exhibition: “FAYBEL” | Mahtay Café & Lounge St. Catharines, ON. Canada |
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Awards and Acknowledgements
2025
Selected for Inclusion: Infected by Art 13 for “The Final Request”
2024
Submission Sunday: Beautiful Bizarre social media for “Tulips of Jimena”
Featured Entry: Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize for “Timbretock”
Longlist Painting & Drawing: Women United Art Prize for “Mono no aware”
Top 150 Finalist: High Art Contest for “Blue Porcelain”
2023
Longlist Digital Art: Women United Art Prize for “Rhiannon & the Skylark”
Featured Entry: Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize for “Kiu”
Selected for Inclusion: Infected by Art 11 for “Little Wolf”
2022
Inspirational Entry: Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize for “The Covenant of the Rose”
Selected for Inclusion: Infected by Art 10 for “The Dream Keeper”
Selected Solo Exhibition
2022
Weird Tales, Curio Art Gallery, Portugal (Online)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Valentine’s Market, The Gallery, St. Catharines, ON. Canada
Deck the Halls, The Exchange, Niagara Falls, ON. Canada
Good and Evil, Nanny Goat Gallery, Petaluma, CA. United States
Memoir, Curio Art Gallery, Portugal (Online)
Stronger Together, Women United Art Movement, Online
Ephemeral, Nanny Goat Gallery, Petaluma, CA. United States
Niagara Falls Night of Art, The Exchange, Niagara Falls, ON. Canada
Tenebrosa Deliciae: Art Festival of Love, Marvelous Art Group, Online
2022
Small Works Show, Curio Art Gallery, Portugal (Online)
The Concept Art Association’s First Gallery Show Science Fiction & Fantasy, Gallery Nucleus, Alhambra, CA. United States.
