About FAYBEL

In childhood, immersion in fantasy media began with fairytale tellings from my grandmother, who was a traditional acrylic painter. I am a figurative digital painter specializing in imaginative realism, fantastic art, contemporary portraiture and surrealism. My works have been published in multiple volumes of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine and Infected by Art, as the cover of Bourbon Penn Issue 28 and more. I have written for Hyperlux Magazine in Idaho, USA on my comprehensive gallery process as a digital painter. In the role of influencer, I have partnered with the renowned tablet companies Wacom and UGEE. As a pioneer in digital gallery presentation, I assembled the artist group DAE (digital artist exhibitions), including multi-award winning painters and Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Finalists, to help promote a digital-positive outlook in fine art and galleries globally.

My health has always been a diabolical thing, like that of Mexican surrealist and portrait painter, Frida Kahlo. In 2022, over 10 of my vertebrae fractured spontaneously, crushing my spine by three inches. I had severe, undetected stage 4 osteoporosis at the age of 29 and 50% of my bone mass was unequivocally lost. Frida’s endurance and perseverance are an inspiration to my own.

Memories and daily conversation color my pieces. My digital paintings are sensory symphonies and textural delights: through fine detail, they enunciate the sensory intensity I experience on the autism spectrum. Lack of social comprehension, from being autistic, drove me to portraiture. I paint the eyes how I see them: eye-contact for me has always been difficult and overwhelming, by effect of the abundance of emotional nuance I see expressed. Mask motifs and obscured vision often express this adversity.

Storytelling is abundant in my pieces, frequently from my original fairytale narratives and universe "Timbretock". An intense passion for mythology, archaeology, poetry, orchestral music and romantasy literature often manifests through symbology in my artworks. In 2025 alone, I have listened to almost 200 fantasy audiobooks and dramatizations while digitally painting. 

Due to the volatile reactivity of my immune system, digital art has been a safer path for me for creative pursuit. My works are painted in the supine position with a suspended monitor to accommodate my bone deformity and vertebral damage.