About the Artist

 

Losing Myself — and Finding My Way Back Through Paint

Hi I'm Jewels.

I spent years being very good at looking after everyone else. PA. Lawyer. Mum. Daughter. The one who held things together. And then a few years came along that were — to put it plainly — a lot.

 I lost both my elderly parents. Menopause hit. My daughter left for university. There was more I won't list here because the list is long and this isn't that kind of page.

Somewhere in the middle of it all I picked up a paintbrush again. Not because I had a plan. Because I didn't know what else to do with everything I was feeling.

I kept coming back to one question ... Who am I now? 

The paintings are what came out of trying to answer it.

I feel things deeply — I always have. Music, poetry, the lyric that catches you off because it said the exact thing you needed to hear. That's where the work comes from. Bright colours. Big feelings made visible. Emotions I didn't have words for, softened into something you can hang on a wall.

Sometimes the feelings needed words too. So I painted those as well.

I nearly always wear black. I paint in bright feminine colours.

All of it came from somewhere real.

I hope something here feels like it was made for you.