Welcome to Cup O’ Soup: a soupy recipe of mixed up ingredients, served in an unassuming everyday vessel. Aren’t we all just cups o’ soup, after all?! 

I’m Anna May Henry, a Toronto based still life artist who makes work about how growing up low-income has shaped me as a person, the personal struggle of adult life in the 21st century, and the ongoing search for belonging, healing and self love in the midst. You might know my food based art from @annamayday. I also happen to be a person who has had my life turned upside down by my experience with infertility and pregnancy loss, which has required a lot of ongoing uncomfortable growth in all areas of my life. As I squirm through this painful transformative process, I find myself suffering from creative growing pains as well. 

Cup O’ Soup is a place I inhabit as a complete messy human, and not simply as a food based still life artist. It includes diary-like storytelling about such things as creative growth, barely surviving as a working artist, navigating an unfolding life that I never saw coming, and general everyday weirdness. Cup O’ Soup is completely free to subscribe to. My subscribers will also get an advanced heads up of new art/product drops in my shop. If you love the newsletter and want to support it/me you can do so here. Thank you!

If you’re like me, you’ve had a great blast at the party that is IG, but you’re also feeling like you want to duck out of that soirée and go somewhere a little more intimate and easy going to get to know each other better. Maybe that’s why you’ll pull up a chair and join me over a Cup O’ Soup.