Acting on Intuition - An Artist’s perspective on Follow Through

It’s one thing to recognize that quiet inner voice—the one that nudges, pulls, whispers this way. It’s another thing entirely to actually follow it and lean in.  Especially when nobody understands where it is all going.

Dropping out of University to pursue kiteboarding was exactly that.

Moving to Mexico and ending my kiteboarding career was that.

Deciding I was going to be a full-time artist was that.

And opening the gallery was exactly that for me.

There was no perfect moment. No clean runway. No point where everything aligned and said, yes, now you are ready. If anything, it felt like the opposite. Life was still shifting in every single scenario.

I was still becoming something new after stepping away from University and then kiteboarding, still figuring out what it meant to root myself after years of movement.

And yet, the voice was there. Steady. Persistent.

Not loud. Not urgent. Just clear.

Do it.

I think we’re taught to wait for certainty. For financial comfort, for stability, for external validation—some kind of proof that the decision makes sense in our society.

But intuition doesn’t work like that.

It rarely arrives with a full plan. It doesn’t care about timelines or logic or whether things feel “ready.”

It just knows.

Opening my gallery in Todos Santos was a continuation of that inner conversation I started learning to trust years ago on those long solo trips, in unfamiliar places, in moments where there was nothing else to rely on but myself.

And still, I questioned it.

There were days I thought I should wait. That I needed more work, more clarity, more structure. That maybe I should build it slower, safer. But the truth is, the longer I sat in that space, the louder the resistance became—not the kind that protects you, but the kind that keeps you small.

Because here’s the thing I’m learning:

When your intuition speaks, it doesn’t mean it’s the perfect time. It means it’s your time.

There’s a different kind of courage in that.

Following your intuition isn’t always about bold, dramatic leaps. Sometimes it’s about quiet commitment. Showing up for something before it fully makes sense. Trusting that clarity comes after movement, not before.

It’s in all those little moments of trusting brushstrokes and color choices for the paintings. It gets to build from small pieces to big pieces and then on to spaces and relationships. Setting the foundation of self trust and then getting to test it in larger and larger scenarios.

And maybe that’s the part no one talks about enough. Intuition will guide you, but it won’t carry you. You still have to walk, then run.

So this is where I am now, on the other side of listening, in the middle of following through and still figuring it out but anchored in something deeper than logic.

Because once you learn to hear your intuition, ignoring it isn’t really an option anymore.

And honestly, I wouldn’t want it any other way.