“Magic is not something you learn. It is something you remember.”
-Leonora Carrington
Bella is a painter whose work explores the dark feminine through mythic, symbolic imagery. Working primarily in oil, she creates dreamlike scenes that feel both ancient and modern - bodies, figures, and landscapes that center around universal archetypes. Her work as an IFS practitioner helps inform her choices as a painter. These archetypes show Her paintings are slow, layered, and intentional, inviting the viewer into a quiet encounter with desire, instinct, and inner truth. Influenced by mythology, psychology, and the natural world, her work treats the feminine not as an idea, but as a living, breathing force.
At the heart of Bella’s practice is a devotion to embodiment and emotional honesty. Rather than telling a story outright, Bella’s work opens a threshold—asking the viewer to feel, remember, and trust what stirs beneath the surface.
Her paintings offer a space where softness and power coexist, and where darkness is not something to be avoided, but something to swim in. Begging the question…
“How deep can I swim?”