About this piece
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“As you persist and push on
Your dreams become reality
Keep learning about yourself
And slowly dare to show who you truly are”
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✧ Dimensions: 70 cm x 50 cm (≈ 27.56 in × 19.69 in)
✧ The canvas: 3.5 cm thick (≈ 1.38 in), painted on high quality linnen
✧ Materials used: mark making (graphite, acrylic inks, solid markers, wax crayons, acrylic pens) and collage materials, imitation gold leaf, texture gel, acrylic paints, oil paints and oil pastels
✧ Inspiration: Emerging was the eighth painting I made in this collection. My inspiration was "keep exploring yourself and trying new things"
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About this collection
I struggled with depression and anxiety for many years. In the beginning I didn't believe I could heal. I locked myself up in the house, too afraid to set one step out the door. I wanted to vanish from the world. I wanted life to become easier, but I didn't know how.
After a few years I took the step to go to therapy and from then on everything changed. In the next few years I learned to understand myself better and how to deal with depression and anxiety. I started to believe that I could heal and become better.
That is when I started to paint the person I believed I could be. In this collection I want to share with you how I fought to heal, how I created strength and found peace for myself. Peace in a world that isn’t perfect and where life has its ups and downs and where I learned to love myself.
Now I hope to inspire, give strength and confidence to others through this collection.