A well-needed break over Easter meant I was able to reflect on my past, what my ‘dragon’ is, and what I would love my future life to look like: authentic and completely true to myself.

Having been able to take the time to get into my creative zone the process itself has felt abundant.

I decided to paint over an old painting that had been sitting around for some years. It felt like going back to my roots, as much as opening a new door: merging my past into the future moulded by my intuitive creator self.

Painting is not something I have done much of in the past (drawing with pencil, balpoint pen, or pen and Indian ink used to be more my chosen mediums), hence the first brush stroke was most exploratory. I was in my element while following the flow of the brush on the old canvas left in its wooden frame which, unapologetically, I did not avoid while painting on the canvas.

To touch up the slightly damaged frame I decided to experiment and was surprised that I managed to create the exact colour by mixing cool red, pyrrole red, and permanent sap green.

As if the Dragon that had been asleep, my inner self was woken up and released to transform into a beautiful bird appearing through cloud ready to unfold its wings; or a flower: like a tulip buried in the ground for a long time, to start blossoming when the time is right to emerge.

A rebirth of sorts; it is not too late! I am evolving in my metamorphic phase.

Feeling the love, feeding on the energy that surrounds me when I’m in that blissful headspace. I am inspired and look forward to emerging from the chrysalis of Self.