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Ever since I put my wedding picture on here, the trads in my replies have multiplied. They seem unaware that people outside of their subculture also get married. For the record, I’m a pro-abortion feminist and I’d rather worship the moon than ever join the trads. Cheers!

Sorry I have not been around for a while. I am happily on holiday with my husband. I hope you are all doing well and making art. Lots of love. 💛

Yearly reminder that you should only worry about a “beach body” if you are a Belgian detective with a fine moustache whose summer holiday in Devon has been interrupted by a grisly murder.

Books are my happy place. No matter where I am or what is going on in my life, at any point I can dive into one of my favourite books and find peace. I am writing a children’s book because I want to give that sense of peace and joy to other people.

Some of the very best literature my native Italy offers. Enjoy! 😊

I am Italian. English is my second language, and when I was younger I struggled to read in it. Now I live in England, think exclusively in English, and read the British classics to relax. Your brain is capable of more than you think. Keep training it.

Learning to draw really means learning to see the world. It means observing the dappled light under an apple tree, the exact shape of maple leaves, the hues of a cat’s eye. It will teach you to look outside of yourself, and notice that we are surrounded by beauty.

Love and light to every person running a small art business, trying to make a living in a world that both wants and devalues their skills. Your work is valuable. You deserve compensation for it. Thank you for bringing beauty and hope into this world.

“Why learn how to draw when you can find all sorts of stock pictures online?” Because drawing teaches you how to see. It allows you to create something beautiful with your own hands. It develops your visual taste. It makes you a creator, not just a consumer.

once you get back into reading...that's when things don't seem so unbearable anymore

I am not going to write tomboy heroines, partly because I am not as interested in them (having never been one myself), and partly because I think society needs to better understand that a girl can have feminine interests and still fiercely value her rights and independence.

Leonardo Da Vinci was endlessly curious. In his notebooks he sketched animals, humans, ideas for machines. One great joy of making art is that it encourages you to notice the world around you, in all its glorious beauty.

The older I get, the more I grow convinced that joy is a habit to be cultivated. We live in a flawed world. You can’t wait for perfect conditions that never come to start seeing the beauty all around you. You must choose, every day, consciously, to see the light in the darkness.

People sometimes tell me they find many of my posts positive and hopeful. The truth is that I am naturally a very, very depressive person. I have chosen to use this space to cultivate hope, deliberately. I have realised, over the years, that hope is the secret to survival.

This is how you finish a book. Stop being a perfectionist, write some pages every day, and one day you will have a manuscript.