Chrysalis

Psyche, the mortal whose beauty stirred both envy and devotion, whose trials transformed her from object to soul is subject here. The butterfly, ancient emblem of psyche itself, signals metamorphosis: suffering endured, identity remade. Like Psyche, she is poised between worlds—seen and seeing, mortal and transcendent. Geometry becomes fate, order imposed upon longing, yet within it she rises, not consumed but changed, carrying her own divinity quietly into the light.

Winged soul, held between pattern and breath.
Trial refines what beauty begins.
She becomes what she survives.

Oil on canvas, 2023
Size: 28” x 18”
Price: £550

© Robert Walker 2026
@theartistrobert