The Painted Perspective - Sharing the journey behind the art.

  A personal reflection on loss, identity, and finding healing through creativity. 2008 was the year everything changed for me. It was the year I got married, a day filled with love and joy. But alongside that happiness, there was also a deep, lingering sadness that I was carrying with me. That Christmas I lost my mum to suicide, and it’s something I have never fully been able to put into words - until now.  That loss is something I live with. It doesn’t disappear. Grief, for me, has never been a single process or a clear journey from A to B. It comes in waves, in different forms, at different times. Even now, years later, it can still surface unexpectedly. The trauma of how I lost my mum is always there in the background, shaping parts of how I experience the world. What I’ve come to understand over time, though, is that grief can also sit alongside love. I still feel the love my mum had for me, and in some ways that connection feels even more present now that I am a mum my...

A story about creativity, happiness and rediscovering my love of art again I realised something recently…Life feels richer than it ever has before. It’s not because life is perfect. It’s not because everything always goes smoothly. Life still has its challenges, busy days and moments where things feel overwhelming. But there is something different now. And when I really sat with that thought and asked myself why, the answer came back very clearly. Art. But my journey back to creativity hasn’t been a straight line. When Creativity Took a Back Seat When I finished my degree, the world looked very different from today. Social media wasn’t part of everyday life yet, and the internet was only just beginning to change how people connected and shared their work. Back then, becoming an artist felt much harder to imagine as a realistic path. Like many graduates, I felt the pressure to step quickly into the next stage of life — building a career, earning money and creating financial security. So...