“I always begin with a single brush stroke, a strike of color, making visible, an impulse from within.”

As an intuitive artist, grounded in body-awareness, Ulevicus (1979) creates out of a female speculative perspective. Inspired by nature, and the unseen, themes of exit and entry; change, and transmutation are dominantly present in her work. 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, allowing her to become comfortable with the passage of time.

Often, her paintings are viewed as joyful, often playful, exploratory, and urgent. While optimism is present, she invites the viewer to move 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.

Using a variety of media such as acrylics, gouache, watercolour, pencils, pastels, and spray paint, her paintings express her relationship with flowers and largely nature as a whole. She paints them as a reminder that we ourselves are nature; to stay wild, free, open, ever changing, and imperfect - in other words, beautiful! Whether exploring laws of impermanence or values such as love or beauty, her work maintains a vision of community, love, and connection to the earth and one another. 

Bio:

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

In her visual work, you'll often encounter colorful & energetic floral arrangements, while in her writing, she more closely explores her experiences of being a woman growing through and beyond loss and trauma. Her work is either forthcoming or published in magazines such as the Laurel Review, SWWIM Every Day, The Free State Review, Blue Mesa Review, and Humana Obscura, amongst others. In 2022, she was awarded a Certificate of Artistic Achievement from the Pinacothèque museum in Luxembourg. In addition, Ulevicus is a Best of the Net, Best Poets, and two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her in-progress memoir, The Birth of a Tree, was shortlisted for the 2019 Santa Fe Literary Award Program, and her first book of poetry, The Difference Between Breathing and Swallowing, was recently published by Sunday Morning’s At The River Press. She loves weight lifting, ice cream, and her favorite quality in a person is kindness to strangers and animals. She currently resides in Amsterdam.