Category Meet the Artist

Irena, born in Yogyakarta in 1987, watched her father, an artist himself, make beautiful batik and oil paintings. He inspired her to become an artist.

I started like a lot of people during the first lockdown. I had finished tidying my garden and when I started in the shed I found a couple of moulds I'd bought years ago and out of boredom I thought I'd do a few castings for fun.

Hello, I am Laura, known as The Barley Moon, a spiritual artist, illustrator and tarot reader. I have always been artistic, art is my way to calm my thoughts and something I enjoy losing myself in. It’s something that comes naturally to me but I never used to celebrate that when I was younger.