Breanne McCarthy Verified listing

My work is about returning to myself.

As a mother, a medical professional, and a woman, I’ve often felt pulled in different directions—caring for others, showing up, staying strong. For a long time, I didn’t feel like a “real” artist because I never finished my art degree. But in 2020, I rediscovered my creative voice through cyanotype, and I’ve been creating ever since—in quiet moments, late nights, and whatever space I could carve out for myself.

Cyanotype, with its moody blues and organic unpredictability, has become the perfect medium for exploring themes of identity, reclamation, and emotional duality. I’m drawn to images that feel haunted, soft, or slightly off—moments of distortion, repetition, and reassembly. My process often includes cutting, layering, and collaging, physically reshaping photographs to better reflect the inner complexity of being a woman. I’m especially interested in contrasts: beauty and decay, softness and strength, chaos and control.

I create to remind myself—and others—that every version of us is worthy. That we are art, even in pieces.