Stephanie Dillon

Artist Statement — Stephanie Dillon

Stephanie Dillon creates from the raw, unfiltered terrain of human emotion. Where love, loss, survival, and resilience collide. As both an artist and a writer, her work becomes a living archive of reinvention, born from a moment that changed everything: a breast cancer diagnosis in 2016 that forced her to reimagine what could be saved, repurposed, or resurrected.

Dillon’s work is more than visual, it’s visceral. Her pieces question the systems we silently uphold, asking: What do we value? What are we willing to let die? And how might we build something more honest from what’s been broken?

Whether on canvas, screens, or the page, Dillon's art is a quiet rebellion. She creates not for perfection, but for truth...for the moments that ache, for the mess that remains, and for the belief that beauty is not new, but remembered. Her work speaks to those who have endured and chosen to begin again.
Not despite the pain...but because of it.