Why I Create
I’ve been creating art for as long as I can remember. What once began as escapism has become something far more intentional. This year, my mantra is Returning With Meaning: a commitment to slowing down, sitting longer with my work, and allowing it to help me process rather than avoid. My abstract expressionist style is intuitive, physical, and free with bold color, layered texture, and uninhibited brushwork that pulls me out of my head and into my body. Art is no longer a place to disappear; it’s how I return to the world with more honesty.
My work gives visual form to the emotions we often carry silently: grief, joy, confusion, longing. I’m not interested in creating something merely decorative but empty; I want each piece to hold presence, to become a conversation rather than a performance. This collection is for the deep feelers, for those who love powerful color and eclectic, dopamine-filled spaces that reflect the fullness of being human. My hope is that when you stand in front of my work, you recognize something of yourself in it that the process I move through becomes a bridge for you to connect with your own emotions, too.
Yours Truly,
Emilia Bachelier
Abstract Expressionist Artist
Returning with Meaning
Returning with Meaning
The last painting I began for Returning With Meaning holds the energy of the entire collection. After moving freely through the previous works, I wanted to channel momentum, color, and emotion into something expansive and alive.
Inspired by dopamine-decorated spaces, the palette became a rhythm: bold, vibrant, and layered with a touch of planning to guide the wildness. The brightest hue, butter yellow, marks a breakthrough, an awakening.
She Leads With Light is about returning fully to feeling, speaking deeper through my work, and sharing that depth with those who connect with it.
