Despite the cosy scene above, 2025 was a difficult year for me due to life simply happening and a big shift in my art I had to come to terms with.   As I found out in December in a suggested Instagram post, 2025 was the Year of the Snake in the Chinese zodiac – a time of shedding, transformation and evolution – in combination with the Year 9 in numerology which marks the end of a cycle and endings in general. So, positively said: it was a powerful year for growth.   When I re

Actually, I had intended to post this at the beginning of 2025, but well, life happened and I didn't get around to it until today - January 2nd, 2026. In December 2023 I had the idea to create a calendar for 2024 myself instead of buying one.   To get started I bought a blank calendar for 2024 and a 15 x 15 cm watercolour pad in a local art supply store. However, I couldn’t come up with 12 ideas all at once. So, I decided to challenge myself to paint a new calendar page at th

On my homepage I used to say it right away: “I love to paint and I paint what I feel.” This pretty much says it all…or so I thought…which...

As I described in detail in my blog entry “Painting as Therapy or My Story Part II”, Ella is a part of me – “the wild one” to be exact –...

Hi, as you may know by now, I’m a self healer. The art journey I’m currently on is not only the continuation of my healing journey but also the beginning of living my true purpose here on Earth. If you’ve been unaware of that but want to know more, please read my blog entry "My Story". Thank you 🙏🏻 ​ When I rediscovered my love for painting/drawing back in January 2022 I realised pretty quickly that I felt good when I created little pictures first in Procreate and a few mon

The day after I had written the blog entry "One Year Later..." I felt like creating a video retrospective out of the majority of the...

About a year ago I started to paint with real colours. Time to look back on what turned out to be a fast‑paced development or rather unleashing of my painting skills that went hand in hand with further healing my inner little girl and culminated in another quantum leap in my healing just a few days ago. I started out with paint I was familiar with from when I was a kid: opaque watercolours (the kind of watercolours German kids use at school), crayons and coloured pencils. My

Yesterday, I painted a butterfly to honour myself and the healing work I’ve done. During the past few days I made another quantum leap...

Actually, I had intended to start this blog entry with the words: “Have a look at this picture:” But when I wanted to insert the picture...

Recently, I’ve become more and more critical than usual especially about my non-digital pictures. It was very subtle at first but it got...

It all began in the summer of 2014 with the wise words of my little daughter: “Try meditating, Mum. It will help you.” Of course, to be able to say this my daughter had to be older than the adjective “little” may lead you to believe. In fact, she was 19 then. But, hey, for a mother her kids stay little kids no matter how old they really are. Anyway, these words set something in motion I would have never expected: I healed myself from a complex childhood trauma I hadn’t even b