A couple of years ago, I froze my eggs. And for a long time, I didn't really talk about it.

There’s something quite surreal about that whole experience - making decisions for versions of yourself you haven't met yet, sitting with feelings that you don't really understand yet, carrying something big and just getting on with life anyway. I think so many women know exactly what I mean. You just sort of quietly carry it.

Art has always been the place I put feelings before I know how to explain them properly. So when Bupa approached me to be part of their Express Your Health campaign - a project exploring the connection between creativity and health - it felt really natural to say yes.

I created a piece that tried to untangle all of the complexity of what I was feeling at that time - the hope, the uncertainty, the very strange feeling of making choices for a future self. And now it lives as part of one of Europe's largest hand-painted murals in Waterloo. Twenty one artists and storytellers, all sharing something real about their health through their work. It's one of the most meaningful collaborations I've ever been part of.

Bupa has done some amazing research which shows that 85% of people believe creativity supports mental and physical health, and yet almost half of us aren't making time for it - which doesn't surprise me at all because sometimes I don’t and I’m literally an artist. Life gets in the way. You're tired. You don't know where to start. But I really believe that making anything at all is one of the most powerful ways to process the stuff we're all quietly carrying around.

Art literally saves me every single time, so it’s huge that massive organisations like Bupa are talking about this!!