Úrsula Romero
Statement
Úrsula Romero is an internationally recognised British painter whose emotionally charged and botanically symbolic works bring us closer to the mystical, the metaphysical and the sublime. Around her creative axis spin ideas about longing and desire, being lost or trapped, dreams, destiny, fertility and loss. As a flower painter, Úrsula explores divergent approaches to botanical observation in order to challenge the efficacy of our existing visual language, ultimately inviting audiences to think beyond their own interactions with plants and their deeper meaning.
Having studied botany to Masters level and being self taught in painting, Úrsula offers stirring visual metaphors for complex scientific and spiritual ideas. Her paintings are meditations on nature and the mysteries of us passing through space and time. She uses flowers and leaves as her muse to tell her own autobiography. She describes all of her works as self portraits.
In recent years, her work has diversified as she continues to explore the invisible and hidden. In a sudden turn of events, Úrsula eventually decided to bury her alter ego Inky Leaves in 2022 alongside her true identity as Jessica Rosemary Shepherd, creating a Meta Tomb on Instagram entitled 'Requiem for a Flower Painter'.
