Each time I stand before a canvas, I feel myself soften. Painting has become a ritual of healing - a quiet meditation where I align myself with something greater and wrap myself in gratitude for the simple gift of being here, now.

Choosing to paint full-time transformed not only my life, but the way I express what is true for me. Though my work has always circled around the feminine, I now feel l am arriving at its very core. Each painting feels like an avatar of soft power.

Tender. Unbreakable.

The canvas becomes both my armour and my altar, a place where I witness my own becoming. Where the thoughts I think and the words I speak slowly shape who I am.

…and there's such sweetness in realising that, despite the sacrifice and the suffering, we have always been the source of our own strength.