<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[MercyWerks Studios]]></title><description><![CDATA[Creative Expressions from a Global Artist]]></description><link>https://anuredway.wixsite.com/mercywerks-studios-6/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:45:48 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.mercywerkss.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[A Gentle Return ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reconnecting feels like a gentle return to the breath. After a significant season of personal transition, relocating our lives, settling into a new city, and deeply embracing the journey of motherhood, I am finally finding my way back to the canvas. Not in a rushed way. Not in a way that feels forced or pressured. But slowly. Honestly. Raleigh, North Carolina has become a kind of sanctuary for this new chapter of my life. You've seen the paintings I've completed in such a short amount of...]]></description><link>https://www.mercywerkss.com/post/a-gentle-return</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a29d08ca83c9aa62bd44558</guid><category><![CDATA[Studio Notes]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:27:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fb793_2de5d0c99131429482c0a6d2e0379d15~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Anu Redway</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Planted is finally Complete.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Title: Planted For the ones still standing. Still growing. Still becoming. Planted is finally finished. This painting has been with me for years, and now that it’s complete, I can see why it needed time. It speaks to being rooted when life gets loud. When the waters rise. When everything around you feels like it’s trying to shift your place, your peace, or your sense of self. There’s also a feeling of harvest in this piece. The kind that comes after hidden growth. The kind that reminds you...]]></description><link>https://www.mercywerkss.com/post/planted-is-finally-complete</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a29cd2bb34d9652f554c906</guid><category><![CDATA[Behind the Painting]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 20:56:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fb793_5c5d03cc4d744fb4906299007b357714~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Anu Redway</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Done!]]></title><description><![CDATA[(A pharse we artists rarley say confidently...) From a thrift store unattractive blah, to an intertwined journey and lessons on letting go. Scarcity Sometimes the hardest thing to release isn’t the person, the place, or the thing itself. It’s who we believed we were with it. The version of us that felt chosen.Needed.Safe.Valuable. And when it’s time to let go, fear starts talking loud. “What if you never find this again?”“What if starting over is too hard?”“What if this was the best you could...]]></description><link>https://www.mercywerkss.com/post/all-done</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a049786618ba45174ff8235</guid><category><![CDATA[Behind the Painting]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 15:30:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fb793_7cf4916f19e74568872dbfdd78ec1d95~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Anu Redway</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Chapter]]></title><description><![CDATA[There comes a point where you look at what you’ve built and think…this isn’t wrong… but it’s not quite me anymore. That’s where I found myself. Over time, my work has grown. The themes have gotten deeper. The process has changed. Even the way I see and create has shifted. And my old website… it just couldn’t hold all of that anymore. It felt like I was trying to fit something evolving into something that had already settled. So I made a decision. Not just to update a few pages… but to start...]]></description><link>https://www.mercywerkss.com/post/a-new-chapter</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ef9d6ed3f2ae6dd9118c9c</guid><category><![CDATA[Studio Notes]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:33:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3fb793_bfcfbfafb4594542ab9fe000708c2142~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Anu Redway</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>