Loveday Funck  Fairy Surreal Art

The Serpent Bares Its Teeth: Art, Intimidation, and the Magic That Endures The Pink Exhibition Closing Reception at the Arts Council of...

This week, I’ll be standing in front of a group of young artists, asking them to trust themselves - to draw the strange creature in their...

This past week has felt like a gentle storm of transformation - a storm I welcomed with open arms. I spent the week in art teacher boot...

There was a time when I made myself small. Not because I wanted to be - but because the world seemed to ask it of me. To stay quiet. To ...

Pocket Worlds & Portals: A Carnival of the Soul This week, I pack my portals. I wrap them carefully in old fabric and stories, tuck them...

Resurrection of Self: My Journey of Healing This Easter Easter arrives like a quiet whisper, not a shout - a gentle nudge from the...

On Sleeping Again, On Healing, On Becoming Real Once upon a time, I stopped sleeping. At first, I thought it was the world unraveling...

Breathing in Ghosts: A Dream of Power and Consequence Some dreams slip through your fingers the moment you wake, dissolving into daylight...

Life as an Adventure: Rediscovering the Magic of Going Out Once, long ago—or maybe not so long ago—I wandered freely. I roamed bookstores...

Why Handbags? Why Now? A Shift in Focus For over a decade, my world has been digital—dark fairy tales spun from pixels, fragments of...

Spiraling Back to Me: Rediscovering Improv and the Lost Pieces of Myself It surprises people. The ones who have known me for years, the...

Embracing Presence: Living in the Moment After Trauma Time is a strange thing. It moves like a river, or like a trickster, or like...

Over the Christmas holiday, while the world outside was cloaked in quiet and the air carried that peculiar magic of winter, I found my...

When you’ve spent years in a toxic relationship, the idea of boundaries can feel like a mythical creature—a thing whispered about but...

The Joys and Challenges of Starting Anew The act of leaving is a kind of magic. Not the glittering, wand-waving kind, but something raw...

From Alchemy to Presence: A Journey of Healing and Becoming The year began with ashes—a life I had to leave behind, a home that was never...

This week, I tentatively began to plan my spring schedule. I've started looking at out-of-state events to apply for, which made me wonder...

Moving forward, I want to devote this website and these blog posts to the advocacy of self-love (as well as art!). In order to build...

Life, it seems, has a whimsical way of throwing curveballs our way, reminding us that no matter how meticulously we prepare, luck and...

Last year, the veil slipped from my eyes, revealing the truth of my partner, a man I'd shared seven years with. It was a painful...