I paint from my womb as the centre of creative and life force energy in my body, the place I spent years ignoring that found increasingly dramatic ways to get my attention.

I used to create ethereal and angelic art of women. When I transitioned into making red and black womb symbols, a lot of the inflammation I had in my body relaxed, including my period pain. There is something about painting with colours and shapes that felt most natural and intimidatingly simple that created the most healing in my body.

The shapes that come through my work have been used across time and cultures, connecting me to an ancient line of art making. There are bull horns that mirror the fallopian tubes, the vesica piscis that is both vulva and uterus, swirls that move like snakes shedding skin.

My own experience with my art being healing led me to explore if other women found value in womb inspired artwork.

I now hold Womb Art Circles in London and Surrey for women who are done smoothing their edges, on the canvas and everywhere else. Women come with painful cycles, creative blocks, a general sense of having lost access to themselves. I welcome all experiences as we all have distinct journeys with the womb.

Expressing whatever that might be affirms the wombs importance, which is at the heart of why I hold the sessions.

I see this kind of art as a potential for healing, not something I impose, but make safer to explore without judgment.

Theodora Price

Oil painter, womb art facilitator, London & Surrey theodoraprice.art@gmail.com