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Yvette Hopkins Creates

Mindful making • colourful creations • every design begins as an original painting 🎨Inspired by nature & simple living 🌱Subscribe for updates and early access. 💜 By subscribing, you agree to receive marketing emails from me, you can unsubscribe at anytime.

Fractured Thinking - an abstract acrylic pour swipe embellished with dots.
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“Not Just Paint on Canvas…”

Why I Started My Redbubble Store Painting as a Beginning For many years, I painted small-format abstract artworks, about A5 size, that I turned into greeting cards for friends and family. I loved creating something personal, often starting with their favourite colours and letting the design take shape intuitively. Sometimes I painted something specific, like a bird or a landscape, but more often I returned to abstract painting because it felt meditative and open-ended, especially as children...

Dear Reader Welcome to July..... Apologies for the delay. I've been very busy this past month and not achieved a lot 🫨 Thanks to procrastination setting in, I have been running behind schedule but on a positive note I've finally finished stocktake and updated the website! Yay! Whilst procrastinating over the past few weeks I've also been thinking.... It's not often we get to chat properly and I want to share with you a little more insight as to Why I Paint. It’s not about making “perfect” art...