So Many Odd Fish In The Sea

Lily-Rose Valentini is an emerging artist whose passion for art has been with her since she was a child. She takes you on a journey into her imaginative world, where she crafts mesmerizing surreal worlds and characters. She turns her personal struggles with mental illness into captivating art. Her creations, born from the depths of her mind, reveal a unique perspective on life. Lily-Rose primarily works with watercolors and acrylics, using a palette of soft but vivid colors to bring her visions to life.

I create worlds, places I wish to be, feelings I wish I had.

I wish life was weirder, more colourful, more safe.

I wish I could go underwater to a place where fish fly like thoughts, coral grows like cake, and no one asks why a cat has a tail of glittering scales.

A cat who grew a tail not because it needed to swim, but because it wanted to feel what the water feels.

A place no one speaks out loud. They just shimmer and drift and blink, like they’ve never known anything but softness.

But sometimes, in the quiet, tiny cracks of darkness come through; so gentle, you barely even know they are there.