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Free flowing acrylic paintings of the female form

29/03/2023

Dear Instagram friends,

I’ve gone back and forth with how to say this or whether to even explain at all. But, you’ve been there with me from the start and I didn’t want to just cut you out so I’m going to try and explain what’s happened to it’s.artwork.by.g

You’ll remember the days where I shared my world with you for two whole years, daily updates, paint-along-lives, commissions of your most personal images and my all time favs, the infamous Paint Parties!

It’s been a long 4 months since the last of all of that, and it’s been something I didn’t want to step away from but something I had to do. The truth is my world has had to get much much smaller in order to get bigger. I’ve been open with my struggles with mental health on here before but it’s a bit more complex than that, I’ve actually been fighting off this diagnosis since I was a little girl and finally allowing my mind to accept my condition and learn what needs healing and relearning everything I thought I knew about what it feels like to have a healthy mind has allowed me to see what true recovery can actually look like.

The last few months started with a full on break, my mind just said NO and tricked me to believe my body should give up too, I truly was fighting for my life. Thankfully enough with the support of Mental Health Services, my loved ones, intense multiple weekly therapy sessions and a true treatment plan from the NHS I’m slowly starting to see the light.

This will be a long and slow journey, one I’ve always rushed before but that’s never worked. So I’m taking time out, a proper time out. I’m holding down my day job in tech sales, doing lots of hot yoga, cold dips and self care but the social side and the business side has to take a back seat, for now at least. Who’s to say if I’ll be back, but for now I need to pause and get myself well for the first time in my life.

This page has meant the world to me for two years, and so have all of you.

Lots of love
G
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08/03/2023

International Women’s Day 🫶🏻

Today I’m celebrating us all, in our own unique beauty and the memories you have given me over the last few years on this journey.

Let’s continue to uplift and empower each other today and every day! 💪🏼❤️

Find your power, and hold on tight!

With all my love,
G
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(Photos are a few memories from the female empowerment I’ve felt over the years and the new chapter I’m leaning into with some amazing outdoor warriors)

10/01/2023

Now this beauty needed her own post 💕 it’s actually a Christmas present for someone close to me so keeping this secret wasn’t easy! She’s a mix of lilac, pinky tones and a pop of gold!

Love her!

04/01/2023

There’s so new women being created, and they’re REAL shapes REAL sizes and REAL bodies ✌🏼

This beauty was inspired by a gorgeous underwear model I found whilst googling ‘female bodies’ 😁

What do you reckon? Cute hey!

27/12/2022

And we’re back on the grid… It’s been a long old stretch these last few weeks but I’m so pleased to be feeling a touch more myself (enough to start posting again anyway).

So here’s my latest creations 🥰

Large 70x100cm- commission in a pinks & purples in my original style

Middle 50x60cm- curvy woman in neons and pastels in a new more fluid style

Front 40x40cm- natural woman in neons and pastels in a new more fluid form

Lots of love
G
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05/12/2022

Only one of the awesome things that happened this weekend! Fleur the Queen’s private Paint Party to celebrate her 20th birthday! They went out to party and I went home to nap 🤩 such fun vibes and the best time pretending I’m 20 again ✌🏼

23/11/2022

Today is the last of being 32, and it’s bringing some time for deep as f*[k reflection on the last year 🤞🏼

1- No matter how old you get, there is still so much to learn 📚 I thought I’d been through the darkest times but that was just a trial run.

2- Mental Health can be debilitating and even in 2022, it’s still so misunderstood and sometimes even the loveliest people run scared from the heavy stuff 🧠

3- Yoga is my safe place. Without I can honestly say I wouldn’t be here typing this today. Tina, you are my peace in the hardest moments and I’ll forever be grateful for you 💕

4- Dressing for joy is liberating, and the people who judge you for looking weird just haven’t quite found their own path just yet 🫶🏻

5- It’s never too late to become best friends with your sisters. I’m the middle of three girls, and this year they have been the best friends I could ever ask for. + I love you so much ❤️‍🩹

6- Therapy is normal, medication is normal and there is absolutely nothing wrong with asking for extra help. Life is hard, and you deserve to live a little easier 🙏

7- Art is a release, a stress, a best friend and an addiction. I have a love-hate relationship with my Art and I’m working on that, but even through all the battles to be ‘perfect’ I’m still growing and producing and that is a gift in itself 🎨

8- Coping with two mental health disorders is hard. It’s all consuming, isolating and selfish. There is no easy way out and the only thing you can do is trust that the darkest moments will still pass. I’m still working on the shame of my diagnosis, and not quite ready to share but I am getting there, it’s just gonna take some time ⏳

9- The right person won’t leave you because you’re ‘too much’, they just won’t. My boyfriend, Josh is my soul partner who celebrates my wins like they’re his own and cries with me through the losses feeling the same pain as me. Relationships aren’t perfect, but the right one will be worth it 💜

10- And finally, even when I feel like a failure, it doesn’t take away the achievements I’ve made, the hurdles I’ve over come and the nights I’ve survived ☮️

Here’s to 33 🎂

19/11/2022

Late night sketches + cosy nights in = a perfect Saturday night 🫶🏻

It’s 11.30pm and I’ve crawled into bed to sketch out some curvy butts and embrace those lines even more. It’s mad but my best work always starts with late night creativity and a lack of sleep. Weird how your mind works isn’t it?

Tomorrow I’ll turn this into art, but for now it’s a lovely little idea floating around my mind, and that’ll do for me 🤍

Sleep tight ###

15/11/2022

We took Paint Parties National! 27 women painted themselves N00de this weekend and I’m so glad I got to be part of this amazing hen-do in the gorgeous Kent countryside 🤩

Paint Parties are making their way across the country, and I’m so here for it!

More photos are coming, but here’s a cheeky sneak peak for you!

Love you all!
G

12/11/2022

I’m so glad that I take so many photos of the different stages of my paintings, this was the middle layer of the bright line painting I completed a few months ago! She’s beautiful at this stage, and beautiful at the end. Wouldn’t it be great if we thought that about the different stages of our journeys too?

07/11/2022

There’s a reason they call it Art Therapy 🫶🏻

Work in progress on this cutie. She started as a totally different body type, but this weekend I decided to give her some more of the curves that I see in the mirror.

Hope you like her (so far) ###

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