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Creating art for all the strong and courageous women out there! Interested in a painting? Send me a message 📩

14/06/2026

The final result vs. the mid-project panic attack. ✨➡️🫣
Slide 1 is the finished painting, all cleaned up and ready for the world. But if you swipe to Slide 2, you’ll see the absolute chaos it took to get there—the dreaded “ugly stage” where I questioned every single choice.
Every beautiful piece has a messy middle, but pushing through the doubt is where the magic happens.
Can you actually believe Slide 2 turned into Slide 1? 😭 Let me know what you think of how it turned out!

11/06/2026

I completely misunderstood my own painting.

For a long time, I told people this piece was just about vulnerability and learning to let your guard down. At the time, I really believed that’s all it was. But looking at it today, I realise my own mind was probably trying to protect me like it has countless times before.

When I sat down to create this, my fertility journey was long over. I genuinely thought I had left that entire chapter behind me and moved on with my life.

Yet, completely unconsciously, I chose a stork. And I painted it face-to-face with this woman, totally locked in a quiet, intense conversation. I see now that it was just the lingering footprint of that time. My subconscious was putting a visual to the exact, heavy, silent dialogue you carry when you’re in that space of waiting and hoping.

It made me realise we don’t just erase our heavy chapters. They stay with us, even when we think we’ve totally moved on.

I know how lonely this specific journey can be, and how silently so many women carry it. If you’ve ever been there, or are there now, please know you aren’t alone. Leave a 🤍 in the comments if you want to send some quiet solidarity.

P.S. Please excuse the croaky voice in the video—I’m currently fighting off a cold, but I really wanted to sit down and share this with you today anyway.

06/06/2026

If you scroll through my page, it’s pretty easy to look at the bright colours and think it’s all just pretty and polished.

But the truth is, I don’t paint from a place of perfect, easy happiness. I pick up a brush because my life has been a bit of a turbulent ride, just like everyone else’s.

For me, those intense, heavy colours are about surviving the rough chapters, and the flowers are just proof that you can actually bloom again after a chaotic season.

I’m really not looking for a massive audience of casual scrollers here. I just want to find the few people who look at a painting and actually see a story of survival, not just a nice piece of decor.

If that’s you, welcome to the studio. Drop a comment and let me know—does any of this resonate with where you’re at in your own journey right now?

05/06/2026

Sinking into the layers of a private chapter commission today, and thinking about this quote...

I heard a short piece by the artist Edward Povey this week that completely re-centered my studio practice. He spoke about how life isn’t a flat line of happiness. It’s an astonishing story—and great stories are inherently messy, filled with disasters and shambles just as much as victory.

It hit me hard because I really struggle to accept the chaotic chapters of my own life. I always want things to look smooth and polished. But working in the studio constantly reminds me that a flawless canvas would be a lie. True depth—in art and in us—is only built through everything we survive.

That’s exactly why I am so deeply drawn to painting specific chapters of a story. It doesn’t have to be a whole lifetime—it can just be one defining transition or a messy season you survived. Turning that one piece of your journey into a visual legacy is the most meaningful work I get to do.

Because honestly? It makes for a brilliant story. It’s your story, after all, and no incredible movie was ever written without a little bit of drama.

If you’re in a messy chapter right now... it’s okay. It’s just part of the plot.

21/05/2026

We spend all day managing expectations, maintaining control, and performing.

These pieces are the exact opposite.

They are a visual reminder that you can drop the armour. Built with thick texture, raw charcoal lines, and intentional paint drips, they stand as proof that something doesn’t have to be perfectly polished to have immense worth.

How to adopt a piece: Simply send me a DM here to inquire about pricing and availability.

29/04/2026

I’m fascinated by that specific moment when a structure finally gives way.

With “Unleashed Peonies,” I wanted to move away from the quiet, “armoured” feel of my previous work and lean into something much more raw. There’s a point in the life of a bloom—and honestly, in most of us—where the tight layers we’ve kept so protected just have to break open.

It isn’t about being perfect or restrained anymore. I wanted the paint to show that tension: you have these very detailed, realistic petals at the top that literally dissolve into drips, messy loops, and bright colour at the bottom. It’s about the energy it takes to finally drop the armour and just exist.

“Unleashed Peonies”
Available for acquisition.

Portfolio and inquiry details are at the link in my bio.

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