About RL Galleries

 

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RL Galleries never started out with a company, website or even a business; instead, it started out as a coping mechanism for me. Thoughts and feelings were way too much sometimes, and sometimes still are. Too loud, too heavy, too quick to keep up with. Art, though—it’s always been an escape, an outlet. When everything else just felt like chaos, the canvas didn’t care. Didn’t judge, didn’t cut me off mid-thought. Just let me dump my feelings out, no questions asked. Throwing paint around turned the mess in my head into something I could look at, instead of just drowning in it. My experience with mental health naturally finds its way into my work—not in a dramatic way, but as a quiet reflection of real emotions, emotions that every human feels. Each piece is shaped by moments that many people feel but don’t always speak about. It’s my way of proposing the question, “Can you relate to this too?” My mum says, “If you love the art, it will fit the space.”  And not just for rooms. Sometimes you need something that fills the uncertainty of emotions, empty spots inside you, too. The right painting? It can break the ice, start a real conversation, or just quietly hold your story for a minute. 

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RL Galleries isn’t some stiff, corporate gallery to me. It’s messy and alive, a mashup of all the stuff I can’t always say out loud. Making art is therapy, honestly—sometimes Emotions are chaotic and challenging, no matter of age, being a child, being a teenager or being an adult these emotions allow for us as humans to grow and help others with either a similar situation or a sympathised experience. I work with materials, layers and textures, emphasising the steps through which recovery, healing and processing comes to varieties of different people. People are built from scraps of memory, sharp turns in life, heartbreak, joy, confusion, hope… all piled together. My work doesn’t try to smooth any of that out—it counts on those emotions to tell a story, each one etched out with an idea, a purpose or sometimes and most times, not a purpose at all. So if you’re after perfect lines or polished finishes, that isn't the work in which RL Galleries presents; however, my work does have an idea of the perfect simplicity of chaos. I want RL Galleries to be somewhere you can feel without overthinking. A space where you don’t need to have the right words or the perfect life. You can view and explore, and appreciate these works of Art, see something that makes your chest ache in a good way, and maybe feel a little less alone. That’s the energy I’m putting out—imperfect, emotional, honest.