Leyla Maria Timur picked up a pencil before she could explain why. She was a child who felt deeply, saw far (and in between), and found herself surrounded by adults who had long since stopped paying attention. Drawing was not just a hobby; it was a way to survive, to define herself on paper when the systems around her had no kind language for what she was.
She wrote fiction as soon as she learned to read. She had what she would later understand to be a three-dimensional imagination, one that was fully animated, cinematic, and relentless. Listening to music conjured entire story sequences behind her eyes. While her inner world was vivid and vast, her outer world was loud, confusing, and largely unprepared for a Living Muse.
- LEYLA MARIA TIMUR
High intelligence without a creative outlet, she would later say, entertains itself with consumption and facilitates depression. The pen saved her life. It still does, every day. She kept the sword as a prop.
There is a card in the tarot called Strength. A woman in a delicate dress, calm and unbothered, gently closing the mouth of a lion, without force or fear. A woman with an authority so innate the lion doesn't even question it.
People who meet Leyla tend to describe the experience in ways that sound just like that card. Men who have spent decades guarding their hearts tell her things they have not even told other men. Animals and children calm in her presence. Groups that arrive as strangers leave as allies.
Leyla is a natural-born tamer, of people, of circumstances, of the self-limiting beliefs that keep talented people small. Like the woman pictured in the Strength card, Leyla is a very old Archetype in a very pretty dress.
Today, Leyla lives and works in Portugal, building a life that honors her sensibilities and natural rhythms, weaving the threads of her unique experiences and skills into an unprecedented way of doing business.
Leyla loves trees, museum dates and swimming in the ocean.
