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Jocelyn Ulevicus is an American artist, writer, and poet. 

Whether painting flowers or more abstract pieces, her paintings are a direct response to her emotional life as she explores what it means to be a woman today. Flowers remain a common motif across her visual work, referencing the classical symbolism of memento mori of Dutch painters such as van Gogh, Ruysch, and van Huysum; drawing further inspiration from French artists Claude Monet and Matisse, and American artists Joan Mitchell, Agnes Martin, and Georgia O’Keefe. 

Each painting can be read as a document of how Ulevicus negotiates the lived experience of being a bereaved daughter and as a single, childless, ageing woman. The theme of human identity and search for self-discovery underpin her exploratory process of form, colour, and emotion— the interiority of the body and outer world cannot be kept apart. She is most inspired by the way the colours interact with one another on the canvas. Her most recent take on ‘still life’ pieces explores Buddhist themes of impermanence, challenging the notion of still life. She asserts that life is not still and evokes this idea through leaping, dancing, climbing, and flying flowers. 

While optimism is present in her work, evoking the necessity of hope, she invites the viewer into a space of critical speculation and personal reflection. Most of all, Ulevicus wants you to feel—it's a radical thing to live with heart.