Art as healing

After a period away from creating, prompted by my confrontation with a need to get everything ‘right’, I returned to art by doing the opposite: shifting my focus from the ending to the journey.

Whether painting on large canvases or digitally illustrating from a single line, I rarely begin with a premeditated intention. Instead, I allow the work to unfold intuitively through colour, movement and instinct. I liken this process to free association in the therapy room - one mark leading to another, with meaning emerging through the act of making rather than being decided beforehand.

For me, this is where art becomes healing: a practice of presence, surrender and trusting what emerges from within. My work invites me to sit with uncertainty, quieten the inner critic, and create space for the many dimensions of the self to coexist.

Art becomes less about creating something perfect, and more about creating a space in which something within me can be felt, expressed and transformed.