The Dance Of Two Hearts

It's finally here a collection I've put my whole heart into. When filming The Outstanding Artist it brought a lot of emotion out that I didn't know I have and honestly I'm still trying to understand why and where it stems from.

I've had a lot of really tough times in my life, the biggest being loosing my mum at a young age and I've always had to pick myself up off the floor to build again.

I felt like life is out to get me, that I'm being punished for something but I think that its life testing us, making you stronger and teaching you resilience.

We wouldn't be who we are without these challenges and life experiences today.

This collection has a lot to do with that, resilience. We need resilience. We have to take those moments and those challenges by the hand and grow. Spread your wings and fly.

I have decided to write a poem with each painting and I asked my dad to write one as well to see how they make him feel as we all experience paintings differently.

'Swirling like leaves on the wind,
confused yet certain at the same time.
The same goals.
The same drive.
but one more powerful.

Who gets to move forward?

One speaks gently, but with certainty
the voice that says stand tall,
that remembers every storm survived
and every reason to keep flying.

The other carries old wounds,
sharp words learned in hard seasons.
But it is only misguided.

We must not forget ourselves.

There may be a battle,
but resilience is not the absence of flight.
It is choosing, again and again,
which voice gets the wind
and letting the truer one fly.'

By Eleanor Birch 

'Blue Jay, blue skies, chase the blues away