Summer is not softness
It is uprising
In this collection, Samantha Leggett reclaims the female form from tradition and renders it powerful, unstable, and self-defined. Abstracted bodies merge with charged botanicals - not as decoration, but as expansion. The figure is no longer observed; she occupies.
Built through layered acrylic and relentless mark-making, each surface carries evidence of construction and resistance. Forms are worked, disrupted, and re-asserted. Visibility is earned, not granted.
Colour functions as defiance. Acid brights, volatile pinks, saturated blues - historically coded as feminine - are pushed to intensity, refusing restraint. Beauty here is not passive. It is force.
These works position the feminine as landscape, as structure, as power in motion. Growth is not delicate. It is radical. It is becoming on its own terms.
