Last week, I tried to sell my art, and I failed. This failure in particular stung, because deep down it reminded me of when I was 8 and told: “Artist don’t make money. You should do something else instead.” Over the past 1.5 weeks, I felt that they were right. …
As a visual artist and coach, my life has been all about pursuing what I love and fulfilling my dreams. One of my dreams is to help people connect to their truest vision for their lives, through the art, music and writing I create, which is inspired by my own …
In the summer of 2018, I went to Spain to attend my first artist residency, where I painted the first Dream Tree mural. After that, I stayed a month in La Garriga with a local family in exchange for practising English with them. During my time there, their daughter turned …
A year ago I attended an artist residency in Cēsis, Latvia. For some reason I felt that I wasn’t “artsy” enough to be there, and among these artists who I perceived to be more “legit”, I couldn’t help feeling like a fraud. Each time I hung out with them, I …
I stared at my half-finished painting of a hot air balloon in an orange sky, wondering what to put in the basket. All I knew was it had to be some flightless creature that was blowing hearts into the balloon to make it fly. Then I thought, what about a …
Wake up. Go to school. Return home. Practice piano. Do homework. Go to sleep. This was my weekday routine all through elementary school. Every school term passed in the same way, year after year. Weekends promised something different, and yet when Saturday evenings came round, my family would drive ten …
When I was preparing for my first solo exhibition in early 2013, it was the most difficult things I had ever done. I worked with a life coach for 5 weeks on a project plan to bring this exhibition to life, and for one entire week, I didn’t do anything …
“The Hrom Dream Tree” is the eighth installation of “Project: 100 Dream Trees”, and located in the neighborhood of Hrom in Skopje, Macedonia. This mural was created during my participation in Brashnar Creative Project from 1 – 30 September 2019. Find it here: Panko Brashnarov 17, Skopje 1000, Macedonia This …
“The Gorna Lipnitsa Dream Tree” is the seventh installation of “Project: 100 Dream Trees”, and located in the village of Gorna Lipnitsa, Bulgaria. This mural was created during my participation in The Old School Residency from 10 to 24 August 2019. Find it here: 502 48, 5227 Gorna Lipnitsa, Veliko …
“The Sofia Dream Tree” is the sixth installation of “Project: 100 Dream Trees”, and located in Sofia, Bulgaria. This mural was created during my participation at World of Co Artist Residency over the month of July 2019. Find it here: ul. “Tsar Simeon” 60, 1202 Sofia Center, Sofia This is …
