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Creative Magic

35: Kat Shaw - Unapologetic

22 May 2025

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Kat Shaw is a visual artist based in the UK who is known for her vibrant celebratory paintings of real, juicy naked female bodies.Over the last 7 years, Kat has painted over 3000 glorious women into Goddesses, held many successful exhibitions and live shows, run enriching workshops and paints not only onto canvases, but also directly onto women’s bodies!As an activist artist, Kat prides herself on dismantling the patriarchy, breaking society’s stereotypical views of beauty and challenging every negative paradigm that women have been drip fed since birth, instead, encouraging them to step into unapologetic empowerment.Having made her name painting the glorious nude reality that is a woman’s body, self-worth, self-love and self-belief are at the centre of her art, rather than airbrushing, filtering, photoshopping and the “only one size fits all” approach to beauty.Glorifying every single body shape, Kat challenges the images of perfection of the female form that are so rife in today’s culture.https://katshaw.art/Heads up this is a fabulously sweary episode with lots of talk about women’s bodies and nakedness.We talked about:How making art was a bridge to loving her bodyCelebrating and glorifying real women’s bodiesThe good old days of Facebook when it connected us to women around the world and didn’t censor women’s artNakednessNIPPLES!The way patriarchy drips into every area of our livesArt and activismHer Kat Walk where almost 60 women walked nakedPainting 113 women in under 6 weeks this yearADHD, creativity and menopause In the Extended Episode – only $3/month on www.patreon.com/lucyhpearceWe dive deeper into:Parenting our kids when they are in crisis and the toll it takesNavigating body dysmorphiaNipplesWomen’s safety and the language around assaultADHD MASTERCLASS - Writing Nature and Magic with Lucy H. Pearce and Sarah Robinson May 28th 7pm on ZoomTO ACCESS THIS EXCLUSIVE EVENT: SIMPLY PURCHASE A SIGNED COPY of one of these titles from the Womancraft Publishing webshop between 22nd - 27th May:Crow MoonThe Kitchen Witch CompanionThe Witch and the WildwoodShe of the SeaEnchanted Journeys And we’ll email you your EXCLUSIVE INVITATION to this Masterclass(Only purchases made on the Womancraft webshop within this timeframe qualify for this offer.) ResourcesRainbow Goddess: Celebrating Neurodiversity – Girl GodChanging History into Herstory – Kat Shaw, Girl GodGirl God BooksWomancraft PublishingWeaving Our Way Beyond PatriarchyBurning Woman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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