RED Collection

The Red Collection is an artistic collaboration between Swedish painter Ingela Johansson and British author Natalie Turner, inspired by the novel The Red Silk Dress.

Seven original canvas paintings — each a response to one of seven emotional thresholds explored in the book. Through expressive brushwork and layered texture, the works give visual form to the inner landscapes of courage, vulnerability, identity and transformation.

Red has long carried the weight of what we dare not yet say. In this collection, it becomes a shared language between word and image — an invitation to pause at the threshold and feel what is asking to emerge.

Each painting is a unique original, created in Sweden.

About Natalie Turner
Natalie Turner is a British writer living in Lisbon, Portugal. Her debut novel, The Red Silk Dress, is a literary exploration of longing, courage and awakening set across Cambodia, Malaysia and Paris. Alongside her writing, she develops cultural work reflecting the Red Silk Era — an invitation to live more courageous, creative and self-authored lives.

Would you like to view available prints?  The RED Collection Fine Art Prints 

The RED Collection in Lisbon

Seven paintings. Seven emotional thresholds from The Red Silk Dress by Natalie Turner.
In March 2026, the RED Collection was shown across two evenings in Lisbon — first at The Editory Riverside Santa Apolónia, where the novel was launched, and four days later at The Vintage Hotel & Spa in Príncipe Real, where story, art and conversation gathered again.

Artist Ingela Johansson and author Natalie Turner at the launch of The Red Silk Dress, The Editory Riverside Santa Apolónia, Lisbon, 2026.
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Ingela Johansson with the RED Collection — seven paintings inspired by the emotional thresholds of The Red Silk Dress — at The Editory Riverside Santa Apolónia, Lisbon.
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