I was born and raised in Brazil. After losing my mother at birth, I was brought up by my grandmother, alongside my father, aunts and sometimes cousins. My older sister was raised with us too. When I was three, my father remarried and I gained a younger brother. Our house was always full - of voices, people and movement.

We didn't grow up with much. There were emotional and financial challenges. But I always found refuge in my imagination and always tried to be strong. I would decorate trees with petals, build little magical worlds, and lose myself in daydreams. Even then, I felt there was something deeper to life - something gentle and meaningful beneath the surface.

I started working when I was just fourteen, helping make shoes in someone's garage. Later, I became a music teacher for children, then worked as a nursery assistant. After that, I spent years in retail with lovely people, before moving into an accounting office. Each job taught me something. They helped shaped my work ethic, my sensitivity and my resilience.

Eventually, I decided to study Law. While studying, I had the opportunity to work directly with a judge - a powerful experience that gave me a glimpse into the heart of the justice system. I graduated and passed the Bar Exam. It was a moment of pride. I had done everything I was 'meant' to do. But something still didn't feel right inside. I was ticking all of the boxes, yet part of me felt that something was missing.

I got married very young, in 2010. In 2017, we moved to England together. But our relationship had been struggling for some time, and in 2018 we separated. It wasn't easy, but we navigated it with respect and kindness. Today, we remain friends. He's the godfather of my children and I'm the godmother of his.

Just before I got married, I went through a serious panic crisis. For two weeks I couldn't study or work. I cried constantly and felt completely ungrounded - terrified I was losing control. Looking back, I see that moment as the true beginning of my spiritual journey. My search for meaning - for something real, healing and true - started there.

Moving to another country, with a new language and culture, changed something in me. There were no expectations, no one who knew who I had been. That brought a quiet kind of freedom - a space where I could simply be myself, without pressure or roles to perform. And in that space, something within me began to gently unfold.

In 2019, whilst working at a café, I met my current partner - the father of my children, and the one that walks beside me now. From there, life slowly began to take a new form - shaped by everything I had lived, and everything I was still becoming.

Today, I am a full-time mother to two small children - a 7-month-old baby and a 2.5-year-old toddler. I've chosen not to place them in nursery, and I plan to homeschool - so my days are centered around their needs, their rhythms, their unfolding. It's demanding and beautiful and it has reshaped how I create.

Somewhere in the midst of all this, Magic Alchemy was born, as a space to share what I'd carried for years inside me. I started painting only for myself, then I started to make some candles, and eventually I started to draw in Procreate, creating slowly and with care - from feeling, not perfection.

Now, with two little ones and very little time, I create using intuitive digital tools that support my process in the in-between moments. Some pieces I still finish by hand, others come softly, naturally and are already whole. But every piece of art and every word you find here was lovingly shaped and brought to life - because it was already living inside me.

For me, art is not just about what you see - it's about what you feel when you see it. It's a way for me to express what I've learned, and what I'm still growing through. Every piece carries something real - even when it's quiet.

Magic Alchemy is a reflection of my inner world - a place where I share moments of depth, softness, healing, and truth. It's not about having the answers. It's about honouring the path - however uncertain, however beautiful.

We all carry stories - some of loss, some of change, some still unfolding. This is mine. And if any part of it speaks to you, maybe it's because your soul recognises the path too.

Thank you for being here. It means more than you know.