Hi there! Let me show you what I've been working on...
I started painting a couple of years ago. In 2022 I found myself as knotted as a ball of wool that had been played with by a clowder of cats and then put through a wash/dry cycle in an attempt to fix it. I was in desperate need of a hobby to unwind. I took three months of long service leave and choose something new to enrol in. From the first moment I took a paintbrush and smushed some paint around a canvas, I was addicted to the feeling of creative freedom. The feeling that I can do absolutely anything I want on that canvas without any expectation, pressure or permanence. I can paint whatever colours, textures, shapes, pallet, mood, emotion or observation I want to. Each brushstroke healed me, made me feel centred and tall. And I noticed a side effect from this calming enterprise, something you may have learnt from your kindergarten teacher: when you practice, you improve. So now here I am, creating beautiful artworks with a full, unknotted heart and now I want to share them with you. I want to communicate through the canvas the warmth, the excitement, and the balance that I felt creating the piece.