Isabel Canning
$25+ USD
Isabel Canning is a traditional artist currently based in London. You can contact her via email at info@artbyizzy.co.uk or her Etsy shop ArtByIzzyStore. Once you send her your reference photos, she will consult you on the color scheme and portrait size; when finished, she will send you an invoice to get your address. Prices start at $25 and go up with size.
“I started my Instagram art page 'Art_ByIzzy' in June of this year, after having recently discovered a little hobby and a newfound love for painting during the lockdown period. As with many girls and women, I have gone through several years of disliking my body, disordered eating and having an unhealthy body image. However, I am so grateful that I have found ways out of this in the past year or so, and a huge part of this has come from several inspiring women and sources of education online and in body-positive communities that dismantle diet culture and revoke unrealistic beauty standards. Alongside my ongoing journey with self-love and body confidence, I started painting the female form with the hope that it would help me appreciate my body more and see it in a brand new light. Using bright colors to capture the beautiful shapes, lines, and curves of a variety of women's bodies has helped me to view them as the wonderful works of art they are! I am so passionate about encouraging women to embrace everything that makes them unique and brilliant, so it feels great to do that through my art too. I have received messages from women in response to my art saying that it is helping them to accept and love their bodies just as they are, which is such a wonderful feeling - as this is the reason I started to share my art in the first place. I want everyone to see themselves represented and I hope that my art helps people to embrace and love their bodies a little more!
I'm also an actor and love to write down thoughts and reflections that have helped me on my body acceptance journey. I'm hoping to incorporate words into my artwork very soon too, as poetry and written word have been so inspiring to me.”
'We women'
What if we allowed our bodies to form the shapes they naturally do?
What if we embraced the marks and lines that show the lives we’ve lived, the wisdom we’ve gained and laughter we’ve shared?
What if we embraced our ‘imperfections’ and no longer sought to change or hide them?
Let’s embrace our individuality instead of striving to conform to beauty standards.
Let’s accept our wonderful bodies as they are and refuse to hate them.
Let’s lift other women up and stop comparing ourselves to each other.
We, women, are all incredible.
