pagination - Liquid apply filter to pagnation and for loop in shopify

I'm trying to render & paginate collections that have a metafield "is_artist" set true. However I can't seem to get the filter to work, I'm new to shopify/liquid and used to Wordpress so maybe I'm overlooking something.

What happens with my current code is that the pagination works, but it'll render pages for ALL the collections, not just the ones with the metafield set to true. The if statement works so some pages will show collection titles but others are just empty. I'm guessing the "where" in my pagination is not working properly, but no clue how to do this otherwise in Liquid.

Maybe this is not the way at all to do this, but here is my code:

{% paginate collections | where: collection.metafields.custom.is_artist = true by 10 -%}
   
     {%- for collection in collections %}
        {% if collection.metafields.custom.is_artist == true %}
            <h2>{{ collection.title }}</h2>
        {%- endif -%}
     {% endfor %}
   
   {{ paginate | default_pagination: next: 'Older', previous: 'Newer' }}

{% endpaginate %}

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