Carissa 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, loss, and strength found in vulnerability. Her work is both a tribute and testament to those who have endured, those still finding their way, and those who walk beside survivors with love and understanding.

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This painting captures the journey of leaving behind shadows and walking into the light. The path wasn't clear or easy, but every stumble, every branch that tried to snag her, only made her more determined to reach that radiant clearing ahead.