“Art should be about self-expression and selecting your own colour palette. It is a return to the untouched, imaginative mind that once roamed wild and carefree throughout childhood.”

“The lonely silence is only interrupted by the sound of my brushstrokes repeatedly scraping across the canvas, in search of memory and meaning.”

“Though life is uncertain, I know Paris will never leave me. Like my art, it will always be there to draw me back in.”

“From the Louvre to the cobblestoned streets of Montmartre, Paris has already hinted at the changes coming into my life and the bright possibilities that lie ahead in the near future…”

“…what this composition did teach me is how to silence the inner voice, and sometimes outer critics, that say you cannot paint.”

“…I preach about the magic of fairy tales and create works of fantastical imaginings. What type of artist would I be if I also didn’t leave room for a little magic in my own life?”

“…being an artist doesn’t mean you have to make art every day, but rather it is how you incorporate it throughout your lifetime that matters most.”

“Once there was an imaginative girl who believed in the transformative magic of fairy tales…”

“If you think you know everything there is to know about fairy tales, you’re wrong.”

“This is not the beginning of me being an artist, but rather it is the start of a visual documentation of me having begun again…”

“This is what convinced me that I must in fact be living in a fairy tale. One can only deduce that if bad things have happened, then the good things in fairy tales must be real, too…”