About Pyra

Pyra Draculea is an author/artist on Canada’s West Coast whose work is boldly colorful and often darkly humourous, incorporating major themes of celebrity culture, rock’n’roll nostalgia, and fantasy lives.

From as far back as her early teens, Draculea has cycled through various forms of making from textiles and art quilts to printmaking and painting to industrial rock and noise soundscapes to comedic short videos to dolls and ritual items, but she always circles back around to drawing as her creative home base.

Her paintings have been exhibited in group shows at the Cowichan Valley Arts Council‘s gallery as well as in the Richmond Art Gallery, while her drawings, comics, and photography have been published in Discorder Magazine.

Ongoing projects include Noah’s Archipelago, about stay-at-home-dad-by-day/cover-band-rockstar-by-night Noah Thorsen, as well Ricky B. the Rock N’ Roll Rat, a punk rock rat dude working as the low man on the recording studio totem pole, and Zamo the Destroyer, about a megalomaniacal iguana trying to take over the world (or at least the neighborhood) in between naps. Previous projects include The Nick White Show, a YouTube series about the second-biggest rockstar of the 1980s and his quest to become the world’s greatest… if only in terms of the local STD clinic’s patient list.

Draculea is currently working on a graphic novel involving Ricky, comic collection/omnibus books for both Zamo and Noah, and a couple of different coloring books featuring her characters.