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Nurse + artist creating atmospheric ink & watercolor art for women curating calm spaces that feel like an exhale
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06/02/2026

I started a new series while grieving a version of myself I can never fully return to.

Before chronic illness, before survival became part of my daily language, I moved through the world differently — faster, lighter, louder. There are pieces of that version of me I still miss deeply.

The “Sound Wave” portraits are a way of translating that grief into something visible.

Each layer feels like frequency. Memory. Static. Echo. Translation.

The way emotion lives in the body long after a life changes.

The way my brain now translates through interference.

I think this series is teaching me that grief isn’t always about losing a person.

Sometimes it’s grieving your former self while slowly learning how to love the person you are becoming.

So these pieces aren’t really about sadness.

They’re about resonance.
About what remains.
Telling truth even when it hurts.

Sound Wave Series // Coming July 2026

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🎧 “Everywhere” — Lena Karla





05/30/2026

Today I turn another year older, and I keep thinking about the idea of making both my 8-year-old self and my 80-year-old self proud.

My 8-year-old self — the quiet, sensitive, creative little girl who felt everything deeply, who covered pages in color, was a keen observer, and dreamed big dreams — would be amazed that I never stopped creating. She would be proud that art became more than a hobby… it became a language, a healing space, and a way to connect with others.

My 80-year-old self, I think, won’t care about perfection or productivity. She’ll care that I loved people well. That I stayed soft in a hard world. That I kept showing up — through the hard seasons, the healing seasons, the rebuilding seasons.

She’ll care that I was brave enough to create meaningful work.

That I poured love into my family.

That I built a life rooted in purpose instead of appearances.

This year has reminded me how much strength can exist alongside tenderness and pain. I’m proud of the woman who learned to keep going while learning to slow down. Proud of the artist. Proud of the nurse. The educator. The leader. Proud of the wife, mom, daughter, sister, and grandmother. Proud of the woman learning to care for her health with grace instead of frustration (which is a work in progress).

Aging feels different when you realize your life is becoming evidence of what mattered to you.

So here’s to becoming someone both versions of myself would recognize:
creative, compassionate, resilient, curious, and still learning every day. 🤍

Only 4 days left before the current collection leaves the shop permanently.This body of work holds so much of my transit...
05/27/2026

Only 4 days left before the current collection leaves the shop permanently.

This body of work holds so much of my transition as both an artist and a person - learning to soften, trust myself, and stop overworking emotion out of my paintings.

I am already creating the new body of work and it’s my favorite to date 😍. I’m finally LETTING GO and making space for it 🤍

What is LEAVING the art shop (and last opportunity to collect is by 5/31):

⏰ Watercolor Prints and Originals
⏰ Women, Reimagined
⏰Soleia proceeds to mental health organizations end 5/31

What is STAYING:
✅ Petal Sisters Coloring Books
✅ Soleia

Use code BIRTHDAY for 10% off everything through 5/31/26. Shop the link in bio to collect your favorite pieces today before they are gone.

Free delivery in 61032 ☀️

A reminder that most of my original pieces will be retired permanently after 5/31 as I prepare the shop for a new collec...
05/22/2026

A reminder that most of my original pieces will be retired permanently after 5/31 as I prepare the shop for a new collection release.

This season of work represents such an important chapter in my journey as an artist, and I’m so grateful many of these pieces found homes with you. Thank you to those of you who have ordered this week!

Code BIRTHDAY is live through 5/31 for 10% off your favorite piece. Link in bio ☀️

Rooted and Rising, 2026. 22x30 inch original watercolor.

TW: Sui**deI was first drawn to her eyes. Stoic, but obviously carrying an invisible weight. But the more I read about a...
05/20/2026

TW: Sui**de

I was first drawn to her eyes. Stoic, but obviously carrying an invisible weight.

But the more I read about author Virginia Woolf’s story - her suffering and desperation, her struggles with mental illness, and finally her last writing - a sui**de note - the harder it became to separate the woman from the emotion I was painting.

This piece became less about likeness and more about the weight people carry invisibly. About brilliance and fragility existing in the same body. About how much can live beneath a composed expression.

I wanted the watercolor to move, breathe, and break apart in places, to feel human. Uncontrolled. Tender. Honest.

And here, she is.

12x9 inch original watercolor
Available July 2026



Materials used:
paintscuthberts.mill paper
brushes

Big changes are coming to the shop soon… and honestly, this post feels like the beginning of that shift. Read along and ...
05/15/2026

Big changes are coming to the shop soon… and honestly, this post feels like the beginning of that shift. Read along and scroll through the newest art 🤍

Lately, my art has been teaching me how to let go.

For years, I thought growth meant more control — tighter details, cleaner technique, fewer mistakes.

And if I’m honest, I approached my life the same way.

After everything my health journey has taught me this past year, I’ve had to learn that not everything can be forced into certainty. Sometimes healing looks more like leaving space for adapting, softening, and trusting yourself through the unknown.

Watercolor has mirrored that lesson back to me.

I’ve been learning how to trust the pigment & water more. Isn’t that the quality of water? Adaptability and flow?

To leave space.

To stop overworking emotion out of a piece.

To hold onto my voice while letting go of control.

These recent portraits feel different to me — more expressive, more human, more honest.

Less about painting someone perfectly, and more about capturing what it feels like to exist as a human in raw emotion.

And maybe it’s fitting that all of this is happening during my birthday month — because this season feels less like complexity and more like returning to simplicity.

Because of that, big changes are coming to the art shop. I’m refining collections and retiring current work to make room for this next chapter. If there’s a piece you’ve connected with, they will only be available through 5/31 before they’re gone permanently - so now is the time to collect your favorite pieces.

This next season of my art feels clearer, freer, and more aligned than ever — and I can’t wait to share it with you.

Shop the link in bio and use code BIRTHDAY for 10% off through 5/31/26.

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Xoxo

Elizabeth

05/09/2026

As a nurse and artist living with disability and chronic illness, I think representation matters deeply - because the women we see in art shape the way we see ourselves.

I want my work to hold space for real women:

the ones healing,
sick,
aging,
changing,
surviving,
becoming.

Bodies are not trends.
They are evidence of a life being lived.

We live in these bodies, but we are so much more than these bodies.

And every one of them deserves to be seen with dignity, beauty, and care.

05/06/2026

Not me turning my mom’s Mary Kay into a full portrait studio at age 9 😭

I used to draw women’s faces and use my mom’s makeup to “paint” them.

Meanwhile my mom was probably wondering why her makeup was disappearing at an alarming rate.👀

But honestly… same energy, different medium.

Still painting faces. Just slightly more… acceptable supplies now.

Anyone else accidentally train for their career as a kid??

👇 tell me your chaotic origin story

05/04/2026

Women are expected to measure our life by output. And I certainly did.

Fast pace. High capacity. Nurse executive.

Then it all came to a screeching halt when I sustained a brain injury that left me with debilitating chronic illness.

If you’ve ever had your life change that suddenly, you know, it’s not just what you lose, it’s the title… the role… the version of you people expected.

And you’re left asking… now what?

I kept coming back to something Jane Goodall said, “every day you matter… find your reason, and do your bit.”

Not because it’s grand or built on status.

But because her life was built on small, consistent acts… deep care for nature… and trusting that behind the scenes work still matters.

So what if your capacity changed?

I didn’t want to start this painting.
It’s the largest one I’ve ever done, and it felt like too much for me now. I was afraid of failing. (The old corporate mindset.)

But I kept coming back to it when I could.

And she slowly came to life-
bold hair, birds, flowers… grounded, a little wild, still taking up space.

That’s when it clicked.

My “bit” didn’t disappear. It just changed.

From nurse to artist, this is why I create- for women learning a new rhythm, building spaces that feel like an exhale instead of a demand. Often in the context of chronic illness that is always changing.

You don’t have to hold the same title to still matter.

Save this for the days you forget.

Or send it to someone who needs it today.

“Rooted and Rising”, original watercolor, 30x22 inch. Available to collect - link in bio.







[Coincidentally, I have on my “People Matter” shirt. Because, you do.]

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Oregon, IL
61032

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Monday 10am - 1pm
Tuesday 10am - 1pm
Wednesday 10am - 1pm
Thursday 10am - 1pm
Friday 10am - 1pm

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