Unseen

14 × 18 inches (35.56 × 45.72 cm) | Original oil and gold leaf on deep-edge canvas

Part of the Abreast collection, exploring women’s journeys through change, the scars we carry, and the strength we discover along the way.

With her back turned, the woman in Unseen gives you a glimpse of her presence while keeping her story her own. You are invited to look gently, aware of how much of another person’s journey may remain beyond your view.

The branching gold leaf can bring to mind scars: the marks you can see, and those a person carries privately. Following those lines, you may reflect on the strength involved in being seen, the need for privacy, and the ways a woman’s understanding of herself develops through experience.

For a collector, Unseen offers space for contemplation and empathy. Its meaning may deepen as your own life changes, or as you come to understand someone else more fully. Created for Abreast, it is part of Her Light, a trilogy with Held Within and Shining Through, exploring inward experience, presence and the many ways a woman carries her light.

• Original painting by Roberta Heslop
• Oil and gold leaf on deep-edge canvas
• 14 × 18 inches (35.56 × 45.72 cm)
• 2026
• Framed

This is an original painting. There is only one.