Thea Schultz graduated in 2024 with a First Class Fine Art degree from Arts University Bournemouth. Alongside leading the art programme at art-K Earley, she has recently exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery (2025), Turps Gallery (2024), and the Arts University Bournemouth Graduate Show (2024).

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Schultz’s work reimagines classical representations of women, reclaiming figures historically cast as passive muses. Drawing on Greek mythology, European art history, and literature, she elevates these subjects to positions of empowerment and agency, presenting them as active, divine figures inhabiting vividly layered, fluid worlds.

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Her figures radiate in golds, iridescence, magentas, purples, and blues, evoking both the divine and the contemplative. Through process-led ink drawing and translucent applications of paint, they emerge within ethereal oases where solitude becomes a source of power, allowing them to exist freely within nature-bound realms. Recurring archways and overgrown plant forms suggest retreat and private existence within the landscape. Lily pads and bodies of water, historically sites of feminine tragedy, are reimagined as spaces of refuge and renewal.

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Schultz invites us to reconsider women’s visual roles in art history, encouraging a return to the self beyond observation, expectation, and the visual frames that continue to shape how we are seen and how we see ourselves in the contemporary world.