Sophia Original Art by Nicola Bird
Sophia is the feminine embodiment of divine wisdom. She calls to those who have asked everyone they love for advice and keep coming back to the answer they had before they asked the first person.
Sophia is divine wisdom in feminine form. She brings the understanding that grows as you live through things, reflect on them and discover what they have taught you. You may hear her most clearly when a question you’ve wrestled with for years suddenly feels simpler. Her gift is helping you trust what you’ve come to know through your own experience.
Each goddess takes her turn to enter my soul and find her way onto my canvas. Click 'NOTIFY ME' if you'd like to be emailed when she arrives.
about the artist
Nicola Bird
I didn't pick up a paintbrush until I was 52, shortly before my mother died. It felt as though she handed me her torch, and I've been painting ever since.
Before that, I built businesses, wrote books, raised a family and spent years helping people navigate change. My paintings come from all of it: the joy, the grief, the menopause, the reinvention, the particular ache of the in-between.
I paint instinctively. Music on, paint down, following the feeling rather than a plan. I want my work to hit you in the gut, change the way you breathe, and create that unmistakable moment when you look at a painting and know, without question: she's mine.
My collectors tend to be women at midlife and beyond who have lived enough to recognise something in the work. They don't choose a painting because it matches the sofa. They choose it because they've been through the fires of midlife and a part of them wants to be reclaimed.
