Hi, I’m Danielle, the artist behind Dani Doodles Noodles.

I create weird and whimsical art—ranging from 2-dimensional illustrations to 3-dimensional fused glass pieces—that lives in the space where cute meets creepy, sweet yet unsettling, with a dash of playful and historical.

Before fully leaning into art, I spent years in academia. I studied anthropology at McGill, history at HKU, and Chinese archaeology at Oxford. My research explored Chinese diaspora in Montreal’s Chinatown, food and alcohol legislation in colonial Hong Kong, and counter-narratives to colonial histories.

Academia wasn’t a gentle path, but it deeply shaped how I think about memory, power, preservation, intangible heritage, and who gets to tell the story. Those questions still surface in my work, sometimes consciously, sometimes not. Is it research? Is it therapy? Is it a way of tracing ties to heritage and history through art? Probably a bit of all three.

I work across many mediums: watercolour, gouache, oil paint, stained glass and fused glass, knitting, and (naturally) constant doodling. I like materials that feel slow, tactile, and slightly unpredictable.

When I’m not making art, I’m usually being supervised by my cat, Cannoli Bulgakov, an orange demon with impeccable timing and absolutely no respect for boundaries.

Thanks for being here and peeking into my slightly strange, very handmade world.