Welcome to The Tonic — think of it as destiny.

My name is Genevieve, founder, chief creator of rainbows and general perfectly imperfect human behind The Tonic. I live in Adelaide, and occasionally find myself painting in some wonderful interstate — and one day, overseas — locations.

The Tonic is a business that was born from me realising it was my job to make myself feel better. And in the process, I realised I can help other humans do that too, when they need that extra boost.

What started as a punny name turned out to hit the nail on the head. Gen is the human, Tonic is the art — and once upon a time the biz was called Gen + Tonic!

But somewhere along the way I realised The Tonic isn't actually separate from me. I am The Tonic. And I'm here to help you find your Tonic, too.

The Tonic doesn't focus on creating just one thing — because apparently neither do I. Painting murals gives me absolute life, as do workshops with students, teams and groups of humans.

More and more, my work is about helping humans connect with how they actually feel — giving them the words, space, colour, cards, questions or permission to notice what's going on inside them and actually talk about it.

Witnessing the energetic shift that my hands, my words, some paint and some cards can make to a bunch of humans still blows my mind.

I see the impact that being a living, working artist — earning her own money and painting what makes her feel good — has on little (and not so little) students in schools. I've worked in enough environments to know the importance of emotional wellbeing and culture, and how vital it is that we check in with how we feel on the regular.

Because feelings aren't something we need to fix or shove down or make pretty. Sometimes we just need to be able to name them, feel them, talk about them and know what to do with them.

So yes, I'm here to inject colour, inspiration, hope, courage and delight into humans big and small.

But I'm also here to help humans feel their giant feels, connect with themselves and each other, and be an example of what is possible.

When I am not up a ladder, or sitting on the floor surrounded by buckets of paint, I may be found in the depths of one of the following activities:

• learning all about being a mumma, and loving the wild ride

• creating fun pop-up collaborative murals for clients

• doodling away on my iPad dreaming up my next idea

• scrolling, downloading and playing with fonts and colour palettes

• sharing truth-bombs on podcasts

• running Emotional Culture workshops

• creating cards and tools that help humans talk about how they feel

• teaching kids to paint murals (and trusting their creative instincts)

• rewatching television shows for the hundredth time (The Walking Dead, Grace and Frankie, The L Word and One Tree Hill, just to name a few)

• going on adventures with the love of my life, husband and all-around magic baby daddy

• teaching my friends how to change a tyre — you know who you are

• laundry. Why is there always so much laundry?!