Encaustic wax, screen print, stickers, MDF, acrylic paint, spray paint, Posca pen, collage, fineliner, canvas.

Art/Therapy? is a set of three encaustic wax pieces that I had developed in a single workshop as part of my degree.  I hadn’t had time to extensively pre-plan or to overthink the pieces; I was creating instinctively and found the process therapeutic. This work definitely reveals the neurodivergent side of myself, playing on the repetition and obsession of OCD and the self-sabotaging nature of it as well. As the artist Ed Loftus said of his own OCD, it is a “belief system, almost like a religion. You believe that tapping a plate is going to make you feel a lot better, and it does, so it’s reality” .  This neurodivergence is also what draws me into art and acts as a superpower – I can get completely hyperfocussed and lost in drawing for hours and hours, or completely hooked on the repetition and flow of creating lines and shapes.