The Artist

Hi! My name is Bridget. I have a profound passion for art, the earth, and nature that has been with me throughout my life. I have explored various aspects of art and would like to share a bit about my background as an Artist and what has brought me to this point. 

My upbringing in art began with my mother, a fellow multimedia artist, excelling in music, sewing, furniture refurbishment, and most notably, folk art acrylic paintings that adorned our home. Her mother possessed those same abilities, excelling as a skilled seamstress and fashion designer, with her home also embellished by her artwork. And my father, who's an author practices acting, performing.

I followed behind my mum from a very young age, reaching for a paintbrush as a baby as whatever she was doing, I would want to do. Painting, drawing and experimenting with colours became my favourite things to play with. Being able to create new colours by mixing different coloured crayons was my version of real life magic. From the age of 5 I began both dance classes and art classes, the intensity of my love for connecting my body with music and my mind with a canvas was profound. I also was gifted my own minature sewing machine, so I could explore the world of sewing alongside her. Up until I was 13 I spent almost all my time that wasn't creating art outside. I had an intense fascination with bugs animals and plants, always finding things I hadn't seen before and new bugs and creatures to be-friend. In highschool I continued all these crafts and was awarded high destinction in the arts. Unfortunately my mother passed in 2012 when I was 14 to stage 4 breast cancer, but all my artistic endevours since then have been with her in mind.

During my late teens and young adult years I found myself with the dilema of having too many passions and creative abilites and no idea which one or what I wanted to do. Sharing my paintings and drawings and putting a price on them was something that felt too deeply personal and vulnerable for me to do. I always struggled to allow those forms of my art to be viewed and critiqued. I started working on a portfolio thinking I was going to go down the realm of tattoo artistry. But also scared myself off of that not seeing my work as good enough and concerned after hearing the stories of the mistreatment of woman in the industry. 

At one of my lowest points I discovered the world of cosplay and saw so much potential in it (and still do!) It's a multi-media artists dream, I get to sew, create armour from sheets of foam and use paint to trick the eye into thinking it was made out of something different entirely. I got to use my face as a canvas to paint and mimic the faces of those I was portraying. As well as test myself and my abilities in creating replica's of virtual and almost physically impossible costumes, props and hairstyles. I had many viral sucesses through cosplay, my most viral photo gaining millions of likes and thousands of re-shares online! I couldn't escape it, it was literally everywhere. My most notable achievement was being paid by Netflix to create a costume in promotion of the Witcher series. I have also been a part of multiple local music videos, as an actress, costume designer and costume maker.

When 2020 hit alongside covid my motivation for cosplay crept away from beneath me, being someone who has diagnosed adhd, I was motivated by the time constraits I was given from convention dates which no longer existed for the forseable future. That year I also lost someone who was my biggest influence to getting into entomology and curiosities, my grandfather, father to my mother. One of my fondest memories of him was when he whipped out a shadow box filled with dozens of butterflies he himself had caught and preserved, I had never seen anything like it and the way he lit up talking about it was contagous. 

It wasn't until after his passing I randomly found myself obsessed with pinned bugs and animal specimens. I had to have them but struggled to obtain the funds to collect the elaborate displays I wanted. So like the DIY girlie I am I ordered some bugs and thrifted some frames and decided to make them myself. Leading to me finally finding a form of art I was comfortable sharing with the world. My deep connection with death (having someone close to me pass almost every year) made me grow to see the beauty after life and a deep passion to preserve and treasure the lives of those we cross paths with.

Life got in the way and I'm only getting around to launching in 2025, its been a long time coming but I'm looking forward to growing and getting the opportunity to create much grander and greater things! If you've taken the time to read this I thank you, thank you for being interested in my work and visiting my site. I have many social media platforms you can follow myself and art buisness journey on which I hope to see you there! :)