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Zoë
Devin
Bell

drawing
painting
abstract art
mixed media
mixed media art
landscape
ecology
comics
experimental comics
narrative
poetry
illustration
fine art
grotesque
mark making
punk rock
album art
mixtapes
analog
traditional art
messy
designed mess
intuitive

Zoe sits in dramatic cool lighting, unsmiling, looking at camera, hands at lap with thermos in right hand

Zoë Devin Bell works in a mess of media and paper scraps. She is a punk-rock environmentalist with a soft spot for farm animals. Her work often revolves around experimental comics and abstract mark-making with a strong DIY ethos. You can find her in the company of her grumpy tabby cat, drawing furiously.

Zoe sits in dramatic cool lighting, unsmiling, looking at camera, hands at lap with thermos in right hand
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Zoe sits in dramatic cool lighting, serious gaze to camera, hands on lap with thermos in right hand resting on knee
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Zoe sits in dramatic lighting, thermos in right hand on knee, smiling with head tossing backwards
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 Expressive mixed media painting with slices of oranges and expressive, explosive brushstrokes

What or who inspires you?

Zoë: Everything from the natural world, to archeology, punk rock, industrial texture, travel, poetry, mythology, high-quality trash, sketchbooks, and magic light.

What are you reading right now?

Zoë: I’m reading a lot of books by journalists or travel writers. I love the mix between reporting facts and non-fiction storytelling. I’m also loving autobiographical comics.

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Some of the best work I’ve created has used materials from free piles.

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If you could get critique from one artist (living or dead, visual or otherwise) who would it be?

Zoë: Julie Doucet. I love her old comics work as well as her newer stuff. I’d think we’d have a great time.

What do you collect? Or, what are you obsessed with?

Zoë: I’m obsessed with collecting recycled materials to use in art. Some of the best work I’ve created has used materials from free piles.

If you could go anywhere and draw, where would you go?

Zoë: I want to go literally everywhere but my latest obsession has been with the Annapurna circuit in Nepal. Hiking and drawing mountains from life is my constant dream.

Expressive mixed media painting, black silhouetted profile-view of head with a block of mixed matches overlaid, winding brush strokes and rainbows flowing downward Chaotic abstract mixed media illustration of wolf dog made up of line work, colorful brush strokes and black ink Mixed media illustration of colorful squares with space scenes stacked against a white background. Build up of colors and inks in lower right corner Black and white comic illustration with green spot color. 7 panel show a mystical woman awaking underwater, text reads 'Blrg...you’ve ventured too far headfuck' Mixed media painting of a native american with bold colorful strokes fanning out abstractly Abstract mixed media painting, black pencil and ink, with orange and rad foliage shapes below Mixed media illustration of a vulture hovering over nest with a egg cracking open

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