Category: Blog

  • Beauty School

    Beauty School

    I’m a tactile person. I’m a scent lover. I enjoy meditative activities. These are some of the reasons why I love beauty, skincare and makeup. Put me in the middle of Sephora and I’ll happily weave my way through, dabbing silky serums, creamy moisturisers and balmy salves on the back of my hands. I smell…

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  • Blushing Peonies

    Blushing Peonies

    I think peonies might be my favourite flowers. A gentle scent, and all those delicate petals. They’re definitely my favourite to draw! This is the most recent print available on my new Etsy store. I do take commissions, so if you’d like a paint on canvas version, please feel free to contact me!

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  • Seduced by Music + Book Recommendations

    Seduced by Music + Book Recommendations

    Writing a blog can get messy. Possible subjects for this post could easily include grief, memory, family, parties, things lost and found. Possible alternative titles for this post include the following: How to turn a blog about books into a blog about death, or more cheerfully, I’m just wild about books and 2018 will be…

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  • Art + Beauty

    Art + Beauty

    Art and the beauty industry have rubbed up against each other for about as long as there’s been art or a beauty industry. They cross over, and converge frequently with varying levels of success. A painted face is art, isn’t it? In fact calling the skin a canvas is such a common phrase that to…

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  • The Reading Year in Review

    2017 has been a lot of things. On a global and personal scale: overwhelming, challenging, harrowing. There have also been truly good things. We measure out one year on the calendar and give meaning to the passage of time. It’s always swings and roundabouts. I’d like to talk about one of the things I enjoyed…

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