I’ve always felt a really strong pull to painting and I’ve always felt fascinated by staring into different colors, they feel like portals to me. In the same way that a song or a story or a smell can transport me, I’ve found this relationship with colors.
I started sharing all of this with people because I kept finding myself in conversations with strangers. I like to wander around a lot and sometimes I’d run into people and we’d talk for hours and a lot of times they’d open up to me in ways that they said they’ve never opened up to anybody else before.
It made me wonder a lot about how I am naturally of service to people by being myself. I had a lot of different questions about how I could be helpful to people until I realised that all I’ve ever wanted to share is my process with painting. The way that colors and shapes and movements and textures have been places where my emotions could find solace.
It has always made me happier to share this process and tools with people more than sharing my artwork. My paintings are like a diary to me and for people who are so good at analysing themselves but still feel the same, I wanted to open that space up for them as well.
That’s really where all of this started.
And it’s grown and continues to grow in ways that amaze me always.
I’m currently pursuing a master’s in somatic psychology because of this work and how following this has lead me into so much interesting information. That’s why I emphasise intuition in my 1:1 program, because there’s an art to listening to your intuition and there are tools that strengthen your creativity and your natural capacity to hold yourself and your emotions within times of uncertainty. My work focuses a lot around building resilience when facing difficult unexpected circumstances.
Uncertainty has been a big teacher for me personally and I think one of the main things it has taught me is the power of knowing who I am. The power of listening to my body, to my intuition, to the subtle feelings that are impossible to put into words.
My work with people is very much inspired by my experience growing up in a broken family with a narcissistic parent. Growing up fast, having envy projected at me from people who are supposed to guide me, not feeling like there’s anyone safe to fall back on are just little glimpses into the challenges I faced within my family. And like all challenges I believe that there’s a lesson, a message, a discovery of ourselves and our own gifts within those experiences.
This is all just to say that my work comes from a deeply personal motivation to help people to reconnect with their creativity, intuition, and resilience in ways that can be deep as well as playful, and always situated within a constant question of: what is mine and what was programmed into me?
