i'm a galician girl who moved to the netherlands three years ago, convinced i already knew what my future would look like (mind you... i'm 26. like calm down). i studied social work and back then i imagined my life would follow that path, but moving abroad changed my life in ways i never expected. it changed me and the way i saw the world so much that i look back now and i can't believe how far i've come

at some point in the middle of all that change (and, admittedly, a fair bit of drama), i realized i kept coming back to the same thing: art

for years, i convinced myself it was too late to take it seriously or that it simply wasn't worth pursuing. but the truth is, drawing has always been the way i make sense of the world. it's how i process things, how i tell stories and how i understand myself the best

so instead of following the life i thought i was supposed to have, i'm choosing the one that, deep down, i think was always meant for me

tomcat is where i get to share that journey: drawing animals, sending some of them through the mail, sharing stories and slowly building a life i once didn't think was possible

welcome!