Life

I Sold My Two Biggest Paintings Ever

Brb *sobbing* 😭😢🥰 About a month ago, I got a message on Instagram from a wonderful woman. Enter scene: Shannon. 🥳 She’d seen my...

Practice Really Does Pay Off

I'm often asked how I paint and draw like I do. As a relative amateur, it's bizarre to be asked this, but the answer is to put the work in.

Sunseeker

Why I quit my job to attend art school. I submitted this as my entrance essay for the Ottawa School of Art. For as deep as my memory is...

2019: The year that tried to obliterate me

To begin: thank you. Thank you to everyone who supported my art throughout this past year. Here are my top nine posts from my 2019...

Letter to my dad: A eulogy

Dear dad, I was in a car accident last May—you know because I called you crying from the tow truck. The incident took seconds to happen,...

Obituary of Michael Kilby: My dad

Written by his daughter As a man who was generally uninterested in fanfare, and, therefore, likely indifferent to having an obituary...

Instagram vs. reality

We’ve all been there. Scrolling away minutes or hours, image after image sliding by displaying tauntingly beautiful people, beautiful...

Just a dark day

I write this as the hours of a day wind down, dinner simmers in garlic sharpness on the stove and family wonders how my class was,...

Unmoored, and okay with it

Unmoored. Synonyms being: adrift afloat drifting loose unanchored… Definition being: [uhn-moo r] verb (used with object) to loose (a...

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