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Kat Shaw Artist
@katshawartist.bsky.social
I am a painter, a feminist, an activist, an empowerer of women, a way changer, a space holder.
Share my art - I’m usually banned from most other platforms!
People speak about “growing”

Always striving
Always trying to better yourself

Sometimes you just need to UNGROW

UNGROW the perceptions of others
UNGROW society’s rules
UNGROW the patriarchy’s bollocks
UNGROW opinions
UNGROW comparison

Rip those fucking weeds from your garden by their roots.
July 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
❤️To the women who have been playing small
❤️To the women who have bitten their tongue to keep the peace
❤️To the women who have shrunken themselves for the comfort of others

LISTEN TO ME

🔥Fuxk shit up
🔥Fuxk around
🔥Scream
🔥Be wild
🔥Own yourself
🔥STEP INTO YOUR POWER
June 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Ladies - repeat after me…

IF I AM TOO MUCH
GO AND FIND LESS
June 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Those days when you don’t want to get up.
When you feel the world is kicking your ass.

They’re the days you drag yourself up.
You straighten your crown.

You stick your middle finger up at the patriarchy.
And you smash the shit out of your goals.

Happy Friday.
I love you xxxxxxxxx
June 20, 2025 at 6:20 AM
💗INTUITION💗
You know, that thing when you know something, and you don’t know how, but you just know…
That’s your intuition!

And if you listen to it and connect to the universe… your life will turn technicolour!!!

HAIL AND WELCOME AJNA
(Which is the Sanskrit word for “third eye”)
June 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I have survived all that shit
You have survived all that shit
We have survived all that shit

And still we rise!

Let’s help each other through this thing we call life… as the saying goes “we are all just walking each other home”

Love you all
June 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I have painted nearly 3,500 women

From their photos

Real bodies

The faces of my paintings are always blank

To mirror you

You find a body that looks like yours and you see yourself

My most common reaction is “wow, I’ve never seen a body that looks like mine in art before”

We are all Goddesses
June 13, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Be fierce 🐍
#medusa
June 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Nothing says "I fear your power" more then the need to censor it.

#censorship
#patriarchy
June 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Your body…
Your story…
Your home…
Own it.
All.
June 12, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Even after the darkest night…
The sun will always rise again.
June 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Let’s have a reality check

Things that are normal:
Rolls
Spotty arse cheeks
Cellulite
Sprouty chin hairs
Sag
Stretch marks
Sweat

Let’s normalise normal

Because living under the false pretence of “normal” is fucking killing the souls of women who carry around the shame believing they’re abnormal
June 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Stop shrinking yourself
Stop apologising for others discomfort

Take up space
Lead the pack
Let them see your power
Make them squirm
June 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I haven’t spoken about the patriarchy in a while

At least 3 days

So
Fuck the patriarchy

And
Fuck body shaming
Fuck belittling others
Fuck what others think
Fuck society’s ideals
Fuck inequality

And fuck the industries that thrive on making us all feel bad by trying to sell us “improvements”
June 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
My cat is ill…
I need to pay his vet bills.
If I sold all my original paintings I would be able to do that.
Original paintings (30x40cm) are usually £395
But my cat is more important & for the first time ever I’m taking open offers on originals.
Are any calling you.
Email [email protected]
June 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My cat is ill…
I need to pay his vet bills.
If I sold all my original paintings I would be able to do that.
Original paintings (30x40cm) are usually £395
But my cat is more important & for the first time ever I’m taking open offers on originals.
Are any calling you.
Email [email protected]
June 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My cat is ill…
I need to pay his vet bills.
If I sold all my original paintings I would be able to do that.
Original paintings (30x40cm) are usually £395
But my cat is more important & for the first time ever I’m taking open offers on originals.
Are any calling you.
Email [email protected]
June 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I am enough.
You are enough.
Every woman is enough.
Exactly as they are x

#iamenough
#youareenough
June 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
A butterfly cannot see her own wings.
So doesn’t know how beautiful she is.

That butterfly is you.
Please see your own beauty xxxx
June 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
You have YOUR OWN permission every day to be glorious.

Read that again.

Don’t put your worth in the hands of others.
Nobody else’s approval is needed.

There is nothing more beautiful than when you rise unapologetically as yourself.

Give yourself the permission to be glorious.
June 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
💗Here is your daily reminder that...
💗You are beautiful, glorious and worthy....
💗OWN THAT SHIT!
June 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
There’s always shit...
You will always survive...
You will always rise.

#goddess
June 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The shock of my art isn’t the flesh, or the rolls, breasts that aren’t pert, scars & stretch marks

The shock is the realisation that real bodies aren’t seen in society

The shock is that my art is honest
And beautiful

Because REAL bodies are beautiful
May 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Don’t ever forget to include yourself on the list of things you love.

Don’t ever forget to include yourself on the list of things you need to take care of.

Don’t ever forget to include yourself on the list of things that are important.
May 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
You fucking grew.

Celebrate your stretch marks like power stripes.
May 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM