She Found the Path to Happiness

She Found the Path to HappinessCarissa 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,

the one the patriarchy turned into guilt or seduction

mesmerisingly drawing you in

regularly exhibits in group shows

perhaps a part you've been taught to dim or hide from the world

This piece is a reminder of inner grit - the quiet kind of strength that is steady and unshakable

a realm where limitations dissolve into imagination

Painting daily is an essential part of her wellbeing and mindfulness

and diligence required to live in spiritual obedience

creates vivid

she has schizoaffective disorder and psychosis brought on by repeated trauma

For Jeanine

Photo reference used with kind permission from Esteban the Natureman