Her Beasts

In this surreal series, Her Beasts, I channel the mystical energy of feminine symbolism that runs through all my work. The Beasts — a blue tiger, ghostly horses, moon-eyed cats — are not merely imagined creatures. They are living metaphors, surfacing from the depths of my subconscious like dreams on the edge of dissolving.

I work across several mediums: acrylic painting, delicate paper silhouettes, and graphic drawings. These techniques allow me to shift between density and lightness, presence and suggestion — much like the Beasts themselves, who move between the visible and the invisible. The layered textures and contrasts of materials reflect the emotional dualities I explore: vulnerability and strength, instinct and reflection.

Each Beast is both a challenge and a companion — a mirror veiled in mist, revealing the untamed, unspoken parts of the self. For the women who inhabit my painted worlds, the Beast becomes a rite of passage. Sometimes she is stilled by its presence, shaken by what it awakens in her. At other times, she rides it with fearless grace, carried through dreamscapes shaped by desire and fear.

The Beast is not something I aim to conquer. It’s a force I move with — wild, intimate, and transformative. In this ecstatic meeting of softness and savagery, a new kind of strength is born — luminous, inner, and wholly her own.

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