About Shula

Art wasn’t always part of the plan.
When my daughter was born in 2019, I needed something I could pick up and put down between the demands of new motherhood. I turned to punch needle and started creating, bags, baskets, rugs. Things with a purpose.

But gradually, something shifted. The designs I was creating for those everyday pieces started to feel like more than craft. Not in one clear moment, but slowly the way conviction tends to arrive.
The embroidery and textile work grew from there. In 2022 I started creating detailed, handstitched pieces shaped by a childhood spent across southern Africa; Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and several other African countries. Colours, landscapes, people, memory. All of it finds its way into the work, made by hand in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Abstract painting came in 2023, and honestly, not willingly. My husband kept encouraging me to try it, and I kept resisting. I had no formal art background. Abstract work felt foreign to me. But his belief in my capabilities convinced me to give it a go, and the more I made, the more it spoke to me. I borrowed books from the library. I watched courses online. I let the work teach me.