Ruby Bateman, Silver Shadows: Prenatal and Maternal Encounters

Using Jungian and psychotherapy philosophies, she explores the shadowy world of the unconscious, and the experience of womb and birth, reflecting both personally and as a collective.

This series of drawings and paintings are deeply soulful, sharing encounters with loss and grief, but also tender gratitude and joy. Ruby Bateman is a visual artist working from her home studio in the South West Countryside.

Ruby’s practice is deeply heartfelt; creating from a place of sincerity and only selecting materials that are natural and non-toxic for her paintings and drawings. With a richly colourful and symbolic visual language, her work often visits the ‘underworld’ of loss, grief, implicit memory and somatic wisdom. Finding medicine in plants, nature, ritual and shared vulnerability. Her paintin carefully interweaves her passion and curiosity in Jungian and psychotherapy philosophies, folklore, mythology, ancestral stories, maternal politics, the esoteric and the expansive work of William Blake into her artwork. These are rich resources for her, containing whilst also expanding her sense of self. For Ruby, the experience of art making is an essential relationship with the self and connection to a deeper material consciousness.

Join us to celebrate the opening of this new exhibition on Thursday 3rd September, 6-8pm

About Ruby Bateman

Ruby was awarded a Print Masters degree from the Royal College of Art in 2020, a First BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art Printmaking from The University of Brighton in 2017, and a Merit Foundation Diploma from Falmouth University in 2014. Solo shows include: ‘Drawing In: The Art of Manifestation and Fantasy’ with Season Gallery in Brick Lane London 2022, ‘PASSAGE’ with Haricot Gallery in Shoreditch London 2023, and ‘Into Wistmans Wood’ with Chapel on The Green Glasbury in 2024. She has exhibited in shows across the UK and internationally in NYC, and her work is represented by a variety of galleries and art dealers.