Arrival is the last of a series of three oil paintings about my personal experience and healing process from sexual harassment and assault. To represent coming to terms with my body after years of struggling, I am pictured coming out of the water and covered in mushrooms. Since mushrooms grow out of dead and decaying matter, this represents how although I am not yet re-blooming with flowers, I am now ready to heal.

Isabelle Halmos

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Isabelle Halmos is an emerging artist from Toronto and a 2021 graduate from OCAD University. Her work focuses on the female experience where she is able to celebrate women’s bodies through expressionistic colour and bold, playful compositions that tell a story.