I am Úrsula
Join me and enter the world of flowers and the mysterious in paint
After years of writing on blogger to a large audience as Inky Leaves, I have decided to start publishing my content on Substack as well under my new name Úrsula Romero. Mostly to reach new minds, ears and eyes. I enjoy the conversation and Subtack makes that possible.
For those of you who don’t know me, I am a professional painter, artist and publisher. I make works that bring us closer to the mystical, the metaphysical and the sublime. My fascination continues to concern ideas about longing and desire, being lost or trapped, dreams, time, space and memory in an increasingly mechanical world.
Described as a 'rebel flower painter', I am internationally recognised for using flowers and leaves as my muse, but in recent years, my work has diversified as I continue to explore the invisible and the hidden.
In a sudden turn of events, I eventually decided to bury my alter ego Inky Leaves in 2022 alongside my true identity as Jessica Rosemary Shepherd, creating a Meta Tomb on Instagram entitled 'Requiem for a Flower Painter'. This was partly to allow me to escape the pigeonhole of flower painting, but it was also a bit of an experiment. For the next two years I slowly gave up on everything I knew. My language (I swapped English for Spanish), my name, my residence, my art, my ideas. Anything to do with my identity got put in the shredder. This was liberating, but also terrifying. You could hear the ego scream - “no no, don’t do that!”. It was artistic suicide. Would any of my followers ever find me again?
So here we are. Anew - wondering if folk will find me. Do I even want to be found? Possibly not, but here I am all the same. I will be posting regularly about my current work - just like the good old days on Blogger. I will be informing you of classes, exhibitions and interviews. I will also be moving some of my past content so that everything is filed and in order. I feel this is important. Subscribers can always get in touch with me and are welcome to contribute their thoughts and ideas on some of the concepts I am exploring. Welcome to my world xxx
