About Bella

Isn’t it funny how these pages are always written in the third person? The utmost cringe if you ask me, which no one did but I just re-read what I had on here previously and it was criminal.

This is my website. I’m Bella McGoldrick. I’m the artist and the seller and the one-woman show that makes art for a living. It’s a point I think is important. I’m an independent artist and the clients collecting my work have bought directly from me. No middlemen, no bureaucracy, no boss. I left my gallery a couple of years ago and now Tyler, my husband and ideas man/make-it-happen man, is my partner in this business. We have twin boys. We work from our home/studio set up in Byron Bay, Australia.

I have been making art in this current iteration for around eight years. But kinda always. What started in high school moved to fashion illustration portraits throughout my university degree while studying fashion design. I then moved to NYC, fell in love with it deeply, fell out of employment and fell back into selling drawings for enough money to buy drinks with. I’ve since been banished from the US—you can read more on that here—and live in an infuriatingly beautiful spot near the beach back down under. 

I write, but primarily I draw. I draw with coloured pencils on subject matters that change with the winds I’m pulled by. But almost always, my artworks look like the photographs I have taken. Thats the idea, that’s the skill set. I sell the originals through my email client list. If you’re interested, please sign up. Most often, I then sell limited edition prints of those originals on my site. With each drop, I’m figuring out the quantities. Sometimes they sell out quick. If you’re interested, I would recommend being online as they drop.

It’s nothing but joy creating art and selling directly to the people it connects with. I’m developing as I go. It’s a ‘done is better than perfect’ mentality, and I’m happy to share the process. I guess I want this page to say is that you’re working directly with the source, and art is mostly a mess. My work doesn’t look it, but up close, you can see it’s done by hand. You can see my fingers touched the white of the paper and the keys as I type responses to each message I receive. 

Thanks for being a supporter, and if you’re not, I’ll hook you in shortly. 

BM