About Dede

I was always a little artist as a young child, but my real painting journey didn’t start till somewhere between 2017 where I revisited my childhood love of art. I had stopped doing any form of art for more than 7 years. I felt led to create again, and the explosion of art just burst out of me. I believe that this art burst was years of memories, experiences, trauma, just waiting to be released. It was like I wanted to get to know myself more, and I felt that the only way to understand what my purpose was. This led me to search deep within myself to find my God-given gift. I remember being that elementary school kid who would draw in the classroom, and my peers would walk over to my side to see what I was drawing. They often asked me to draw something for them. Then it hit me. Your gift is something that you love to do that people naturally gravitate to. For me, this was the beginning of healing and learning more about myself. As I was healing, I met myself with the canvas and just let out whatever I was feeling out and found that no matter how I was feeling, I still wanted to make my painting pretty. It just showed me how badly I still look for the beauty in the circumstance. For me, that was the beginning of something truly magical.