Liberty, a self-taught oil painter based in Bristol, UK.
I lost my beautiful mother in 2024, at just 21 years old. It was very sudden, unexpected, and traumatic. I was with her when it happened.
She was my only parent, my soulmate, twin, best friend, and undoubtedly the best person to ever exist. We did everything together. And I feel completely broken without her.
Immediately after she passed, all I could bring myself to do was paint. And in this time, I painted ‘A Daughter’s Memory’.
I’ve experienced a few traumatic losses in my family and many adversities but losing my mother strikingly altered my outlook on life.
All of my fears.. disappeared. Because the worst thing I could ever experience.. happened.
Nothing mattered anymore. Life was meaningless. And in a strange way, amongst the excruciating pain, I felt free.
Faced with my inevitable mortality, I wasn’t going to waste another second living without purpose.
I was going to open myself up. Say yes to everything. Chase everything I felt was meant for me.
And painting was the only way that living made sense.
So, I moved to Bristol and quit my corporate job. To finally create full-time. Something I’d denied for myself my entire life.
My work is inspired by intense emotion and metaphors.
I love the practice of developing a visualisation for an emotion or experience that feels otherwise indescribable.
I like to present dark topics, ones general audiences tend to feel uncomfortable addressing, with aesthetic visualisation. Adding beauty to otherwise difficult subjects.
I tend to paint self portraits since my story telling is born from my own lived experience.
Moving forward I’d like to share all of my very human experiences, as well as bringing more light to the excruciatingly complex grief of losing a parent so young and so suddenly.