Nicola Bird picked up a paintbrush for the first time at 52, shortly before losing her mother, and discovered something she hadn't expected: first healing, then pure joy.

Her large, layered abstract paintings are shaped by a life fully lived; building businesses, raising children, menopause, reinvention and all the things that come with treading the earth for over five decades.

Some women collect tattoos to mark the moments that changed them. Nicola paints for the women for whom paintings do the same job. The ones who stop, look twice and recognise something of their own story in her art before they can explain why.

10% of all original sales are donated to The Hunger Project - creating a world without chronic hunger.