She Arrives When She's Ready

I've been thinking about the women who find my work.

It's rarely accidental. Something brings them here - a feeling they've been sitting with, something half-formed. A sense that they want art on their walls that actually means something. That reflects something true. That celebrates the female body not as an object but as something alive, powerful, worth honouring.

Elizabeth Gilbert writes in Big Magic about ideas moving through the world looking for the right person. I think collectors work the same way. The right painting finds you when you're ready for it.

Liberation, sensuality, self-acceptance - that's the thread running through everything I create. From my solo show Transcendence to this new cobalt blue work.

These new paintings - Lapis, and a trio called As She Is - feel like they belong to a particular kind of woman. One who has done some work on herself. Who is learning, or has learned, to stop apologising for taking up space. Who wants her home to hold that energy.

Free. Revel. Whole. Three small square paintings, each one a single feeling. A body at ease, a body in pleasure, a body that lacks nothing. Side by side they say something I want every woman to hear.

Lapis says it differently - bigger, quieter, just a woman held in that deep ancient blue. Present. Enough.

This is why I paint. Not to decorate walls - though I hope they're beautiful - but to put something true into the world. Something that says: this is what it looks like to be free in your own skin. Does that land for you? Then maybe one of these is yours. Come and browse the full collection.

Roberta x