FEATURED ARTWORK

A woman with cow horns wearing a striped scarf around her shoulders

Self Portrait: Finding love for my stubbornness. ©2026

This is in a sketchbook I made so that I could have my favourite paper in the format and size I wanted. I used full sheets of Saunders Waterford paper and got one 11"x11" sketchbook as well as an 8"x5" portrait book.

I wanted something to pour my love into so wanted a paper I would enjoy painting on. The project is very much a personal one. The goal is to find love for all those parts of myself that don't seem as attractive, like my anger or fear. And to paint them beautifully.

I am allowing my sketchbook to become a safe space where I can investigate my shadow self. With the hope that a safe space for these feelings will grow inside of me alongside the images I am painting.

Painting has helped me to develop a sense of calm within myself.

It has helped me to get to know myself more deeply.

A woman opens a door to a void of unknown wonders. behind her is a field of lavender and mountains

Front cover for shadow self project.

Using Derwent watercolour pencils

"KNOW THYSELF, NOTHING IN EXCESS, SURETY BRINGS RUIN, Eh?" Maia Toll, "The Night School" (2022)

Creative challenge for Coppafeel Breast Cancer Charity

Painting nudes for the Coppafeel creative challenge, 2025. Raising money for information packs, student talks and other resources for young people. Coppafeel educates young people on their risk of Breast Cancer and provides detailed info on how to check your chest.

HOW TO CHECK YOUR CHEST!

COPPAFEEL

two nude women sit atop a rock. one is sat upright with a red shawl on her head. one is laying with her head in the others lap. there is luch greenery one side and a barren landscape on the other, representing fertility, or lack theirof

a naked woman with long ginger hair clutches her chest. there is a blue background behind her

an alien with three breasts clasps her breast to check for lumps and bumps. the words coppafeel, feel it on the 1st are written across the image to remind you to check your chest

"Aileen says "check your chest humans!" another piece I did for the charity fundraiser for Coppafeel.

A cat with multiple breasts showing the symptoms of breast cancer boob planets surround the creature.

Drawn for the Coppafeel creative challenge, showing the symptoms of Breast Cancer.

blue and purple inkblot with a woman protruding from it , she is naked and chescking her chest

Inkblot style painting using ink, saliva, water and watercolour paint.

a portrait of a woman wearing a turd earring

Inkblot style painting using ink, saliva, water and watercolour paint.

Inkblot style painting using ink, saliva, water and watercolour paint.

words across an intestine read trust your gut. an abstract splodge of colour sits behind the pen lines

Inkblot style painting using ink, saliva, water and watercolour paint.

Two women embrace as one tenderly checks the chest of the other. behind them is an orange and pink swirl style inkblot.

Inkblot style painting using ink, saliva, water and watercolour paint.

A woman with double mastectomy scars raises her arms in triumph

Inkblot style painting using ink, saliva, water and watercolour paint.

abstract colour inkblot behind and image of a girl kneeling and checking her chest for lumps and bumps

"The Artist"

Inkblot style painting using ink, saliva, water and watercolour paint.

2026

Sketchbook pieces from 2026.

An extra terrestrial with blue skin looks forward their hand placed on the head of a human woman. She has white hair and is weeping tears of joy and belonging.

Sketchbook work 2025

Art Meditations

I was influenced by another artist Alley Leong, who uses meditation in her work. It started as a way to come up with new ideas. Only to realise it was what was missing from my art practice. I was getting so overwhelmed by the question of "What to paint?" and I wasn't truly looking inside myself. I started to do art meditations as a way to bring my focus back to my body, to my breath. And from that place of stillness an abundance of creativity was waiting to be unleashed.

two nude women, one made of air and one made of earth. air blows down into earths mouth.

a womans head in yellow and pirple tones, she is surrounded by planets. an alien peers over her left shoulder to the right. she has a rose in her mouth

a portrait of a woman in purlple and yellow. to the right an alien peers over her left shoulder. there are planets surrounding her and a rose in her mouth

a woman with three eyes screams as she pulls her hair which flows into a river and down into the form of a snake that is shouting in her ear

Meeting the Shadow Self

partial image of a face surrounded by opium poppies

In 2024 I started reading a book on Mysticism called "The Night School" by Maia Toll. A book on the "mysteries of being human". I had studied psychology at University but only really touched on the subject of the subconscious. Maia Toll's book and others, listed in the resources section, helped me to look into my subconscious. I started unravelling the layers of what I thought was my "Self" to figure out who I really was underneath all those layers of societal expectations. It has at times been an unpleasant journey, looking at the parts of myself that had been buried. Asking myself the question of "who am I, really?" forced me to look at those buried parts, the parts I hated and give them love. I felt I needed to nurture those parts of myself, and give them a space to heal. Art allowed me to visualise this healing process and the parts of my shadow. It allowed me to see the beauty in those past selves, who were merely clinging to survival, and start to forgive them.

a mask of a womans face smoking a joint. around her is a blue background

"The mask" sketchbook piece investigating the mask I wear to hide my unique traits, to make me seem more palatable.

a person with the top of their head sawn off weeds out the poisonous plants. they have green hair and freckles

"Weeding out the problems". Sketchbook piece looking at my negatively impactful thoughts.

A large orange wolf head sits atop a womans head. she is holding a black egg and eating it. yolk runs down her chin

Art based on a tarot reading using Kim Krans Animal Spirit deck.

watercolour painting of a girl looking away. there are bugs crawling on her and mushrooms growing out her back. she faces into darkness

Using a Comic style format to process major life events:

Starting to process trauma through art and creative writing. Using Comic book style art to journal about traumatic events and difficult emotions. The idea to do this came from one of my therapists.

a person in a red jacket with a red bag walk towards an enclosed carpark. a truck sits on the land to the right. a cat is perched on the persons shoulders. they are smoking and the smoke joins to smoke billowing from a chimney.

Home, sweet, home.

A girl and her cat.

"The burner's lit Yetti! Would you look at that"

comic style images portraying a dream with fish and a fisherman throwing a net full of sanitary products. a girl lighting a burner. her on the phone. her in bed with a blanket that looks like a wave

Exhausted, she lights the burner, and heads to sleep. Entering a vivid dream, of sea's so deep.

dream sequence and laundry sequence in comic style

A secret told, A comfy towel. "What does it mean?" she asks the owl. Bed sheets bloodied, she strips the sheets. Soaks them in cold water for the blood to release.

series of images depicting a person with endometriosis ispain in a cartoon style

Excruciating pain, she led on the sofa and wailed. A knock at the door, and her face turns quite pale. A soft voice calls out with offerings of wisdom and tea. "Wrap yourself in a towel" she said, "and let the blood flow free."

Tarot "Major Arcana" Meditations

These paintings were done as a series of meditations using an audiobook by Kim Krans the author of the Wild Unknown Tarot deck. The audiobook "Major Arcana Meditations" is a series of short meditations, each giving you the feeling of the card through music.

To create these paintings, I took a sip of water and held it in my mouth for the duration of the meditation. Allowing It to become a part of my saliva. I then spat the water at the paper at the end of the meditation. Whilst re-playing the same meditation, I added watercolour pigment to the puddles of water. Each one took on a different shape depending on the force being spat out, which in turn was influenced by the feeling I got from each cards meditation soundtrack. I developed this technique from the water battery method developed by Damien Echols in his course on Magick "A course in Higher Magick" by Damien Echols.

blue and yellow inkblot style painting. abstract painting

"The Fool"

Inkblot style painting using saliva, water and watercolour paint.

multicolour inkblot style painting. abstract

"The Magician"

Inkblot style painting using saliva, water, watercolour paint and movement.

Inkblot style painting using saliva, watercolour paint and filtered water.

"The Empress"

Inkblot style painting using saliva, water and watercolour paint.

"The Emperor"

Inkblot style painting using saliva, water and watercolour paint.

Inkblot style painting using saliva, water and watercolour paint.

I then used a pen to draw my version of the tarot card over the top of the inkblots. Sometimes working with them to find shapes, and other times using the splodges as a background or contrasting element.

Inkblot style painting using ink, saliva, water and watercolour paint.

an ink drawing of a door its painted in an abstract way using deep blues and purple

Inkblot style painting using ink, saliva, water and watercolour paint.

Inkblot style painting using ink, saliva, water and watercolour paint.

an ink drawing of an albatross. a blue and green splodge in the background

Inkblot style painting using ink, saliva, water and watercolour paint.

ANn ink drawing of a zebra. a blue and green trail of paint swirls around the page

Inkblot style painting using ink, saliva, water and watercolour paint.

an ink drawing of a moon. red and blue dashes of painted are splattered across the page

Inkblot style painting using ink, saliva, water and watercolour paint.

"The Artist"

Inkblot style painting using ink, saliva, water and watercolour paint.

Personal Art inspired by famous paintings

an upside down face. one eye is closed. the person has long blue hair that blends into the water. waterlilies surround them.

a water colour painting of a woman with a melting clock over her eye. her hair is made of the sea and her back is a mountain. slugs crawl across her. a skeleton rests on another clock like a tattoo on her arm

Space, The Universe and Extra-Terrestrials

blue hands holding a cup with an eye on it. they are pouring out a sparkly liquid into a pink and orange sky. blue feet surround the blue hands.

a greenish/grey extra terrestrial face. an extra terrestrial hand with three fingers. they have orange eyes. theres a grey space craft on the right over the e.t's left eye

a blue being flies throught a cosmic dust cloud

a blue headed alien with large orange eyes stands on the moon with the earth an sun behind them. they are wearing a spacesuit and have red skin on their hands and a green neck. a small spacecraft sits behind them on the moon surface to the right

a green headed alien plays ball with their ostrich like friends. they are on a beige planet with two planets orbitting nearby, one is green, one pink. there is an aurora-borealias and a buddhist style temple behing the alien

an elephant headed man dances wearing only a shawl. he has four arms, one holding a bottle of wine, one has a bong, another a lotus and one hand holds peaches.. there is a pink background and blue smoke billowing from his trunk

Fixing a broken heart

Using deep meditation to create stillness, and to focus my energy on healing. For these paintings I created my own light language and magickal Sigils. I developed this idea for visualising healing from Damien Echols instructions on visualisation in his book "High Magick". Damien instructs the reader through several techniques to visualise the magick being created. I have added art meditation as a way to bring that visualisation into the real world.

a loose painting of a heart in reds and blues and orange

A green and yellow hue anatomical heart with magick sygils over the top

a loose painting of an anatomical heart with numbers on and magic symbols

a painting of an anotomical heart in rainbow colours. there's magic sigils and the words love inscribed across it

painting of an anatomical heart in green and yellow. Writting flows in and out with the words love across

Chakra Art

a painting of a woman sitting cross legged with their back facing forward. they have a jellyfish for a head and polyps as a spine

a red hand holds an apple. theres a maggot inside and one on her finger that she is offering to the robin that is perched atop her hand

a girl sits with her kness up, she has roots made of red ink coming out from uder her

a woman nude painted in orange with a blue pail of water that she is holding above her head. there is blue liquid coming down out of it

Art inspired by Frida. The first artist that inspired me to create art.

I originally painted this as an oil painting, however, in a fit of rage destroyed it. I find oils hard to work with due to the smell and have thought about doing it as a large watercolour piece. I love the fluidity that comes only from working with water.