She Started to Believe in Herself

Carissa is a mixed media artist whose work explores healing, self-discovery, and resilience. Her practice blends painting, collage, and text to express complex emotional works shaped by personal experience. Having supported a former partner and son through severe mental health struggles, Carissa's art has become a space for processing grief and honouring the unspoken. 

Through layered textures and symbology forms, she invites viewers to explore love, loss, and strength found in vulnerability. Her work is both a tribute and testament to those who have endured, those still finding their way, and those who walk beside survivors with love and understanding.

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She's stepping into the light, embracing her strength, and, for the first time, seeing herself as more than her past. This painting is about quiet confidence; a seed of belief taking root, growing stronger everyday.