Meet Evelyne Verret
Photo credit: Carrie Gingras
Oh hi! I'm Evelyne Verret, part healer, artist, coach, teacher, and full-time believer in the messy magic of creativity. I guide women through self-discovery journeys, armed with paintbrushes and a stubborn belief that art isn’t always pretty, it can have purpose and be transformational! Every canvas I touch starts with an intention and is infused with healing energy.
My journey with the Bee Sisterhood Oracle started in 2020 when that little global hiccup we all experienced was brewing. I was packing up my Michigan life and moving to Upstate New York. Talk about timing! Right in the middle of my "where did I pack the toilet paper?" chaos, I was invited to paint for the Bee Oracle deck. It felt like the universe was saying, "Hey girl, don't worry about leaving your community, here's a creative lifeline!" While I couldn't tell a worker bee from a drone, I dove in head first trusting my intuition. I started by creating hexagonal wood pieces that screamed "bee energy!"
Lemniscate Dance
During this time, I was having quite the heart-to-heart with my inner contradictions, you know, the "I'm a spiritual being" versus the "I just binged an entire season of reality TV" parts of myself. This tug-of-war inspired "The Lemniscate Dance," which sounds fancy but really just celebrates how we're all beautiful messes dancing between our light and shadow. One day I feel like a zen goddess floating on clouds of serenity, the next I'm curled up with tears streaming down my face feeling deeply unworthy, and I've finally learned that this beautiful contradiction is not just okay, but part of the eternal Lemniscate Dance, where like the bee moving between flower and hive, we naturally flow between our strength and vulnerability in an infinite cycle of becoming.
Gloves
Then there's my glove piece, which helped me realize that protecting yourself doesn't mean becoming a hermit. After years of bending myself into impossible shapes to please others, always nice, always understanding, always accommodating, I found myself completely depleted and exhausted. That's when I finally started setting boundaries, discovering I could still connect with people, just with metaphorical gloves on! "I love you, but no, you cannot emotionally manipulate me anymore. My heart is open, but my boundaries are non-negotiable.
Beekeepress
The piece that nearly broke me? "The Beekeepress." Oh boy, did I wrestle with perfectionism on that one! I fretted, I sweated, I may have had a minor meltdown involving ice cream. And guess what? Five years later, I spotted a glaring error in it, which made me laugh. It’s quite humbling!
That piece taught me about the dance between beekeeper and bees, a relationship of mutual respect that mirrors how I've learned to treat my creativity: showing up, listening closely, and knowing when to step back and let the magic happen on its own terms.
Through all these creations, I'm really just celebrating connections, the messy, wonderful threads that tie us together and weave through our own beautiful contradictions. Each piece is just another step in my journey of figuring stuff out, one colorful “mistake” at a time!
If you want to see more of what I do and offer, come visit me here: radiantalchemist.com I am also on Instagram