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.
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.
Flowers! 2023. Acrylic on linen, 60 x 80 cm.
Here Come The Wild Flowers, 2023. Acrylic and gouache on hand-stretched Barcelona linen. 100 x 120 cm.
Flower Party, 2022. Acrylic, gesso, on linen, 100 x 120 cm.
Flower Picking No. 2, 2022. Acrylic on linen, 60 x 80 cm.
Heldere Dagen, Acrylic on linen, 2023. 100 x 120 cm.
Climbing, 2023. acrylic and gouache on linen, 50 x 70 cm.
Get Free, 2023. Acrylic, gouache, on linen, 60 x 80 cm.
Wild, 2022. Acrylic, gesso, on linen, 100 x 120 cm.
Falling, 2023. Acrylic, gesso, on linen, 80 x 100 cm.
Where The Wild Things Grow, 2023. Acrylic, gouache, on linen, 60 x 80 cm.
Garden, 2022. Acrylic on linen, 100 x 120 cm.
We Had A Good Day, 2023. Acrylic on linen, 30 x 40 cm.
Learning to Fly, 2023. Acrylic, gouache, on linen. 80 x 100 cm.
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Jocelyn Ulevicus is an American artist, writer, and poet. In her visual work, you'll often encounter colorful and 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 Mornings At The River Press. She loves weightlifting, ice cream, and her favorite quality in a person is kindness to strangers and animals. She currently resides in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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