We were lucky to catch up with Ute Bivona recently and have shared our conversation below.

Ute, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Earning a full time living from one’s creative career can be incredibly difficult. Have you been able to do so and if so, can you share some of the key parts of your journey and any important advice or lessons that might help creatives who haven’t been able to yet?

While not yet completely sustaining myself through art, it’s improving. My unique style is deeply connected to nature and flowers, primarily expressed through vibrant, abstract expressionism. I’ve observed a growing need for the positive vibes and healing my art brings to others, especially when surrounded by a grey and negative ambience or thoughts. Thriving in this journey, my work continues to evolve and resonate.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I am 63 years old and I have drawn and painted as long I can remember. Drawing and painting was always a way for creating my own world, in the colors I wanted.

I studied Communicational Design which included graphics, illustration, layout, calligraphy and much more.
After my Diploma I worked as a self-deployed graphic designer but it didn’t make me happy. To be creative under pressure and to have to realise the client’s ideas wasn’t really satisfying. In contrary this job made me loose all of my passion and creativity so I decided to let go creativity and find a day job to maintain my children and me.

But after 10 years my body and my mind told me what I rather should do and as I didn’t listen to the call deep down inside of me I got a burnout.

So I finally got ready to do what I really had loved and missed all these years: I wanted to start painting again! And I did! Now I am a professional artist and I am working figuratively but mainly abstract and expressive paintings n my studio in Munich. So the story behind my pictures is the story of hope, healing, joy and unreserved respect and love for and coherence and oneness with nature.

I love to explore the interaction of colors, they give me my inspiration.
My work is boldly colored and richly textured, my heavy body acrylics are often looking like oils, with multiple layers, scratched, sanded, carved into and drawn onto. It’s based on joy, the joy of creating, the joy of transforming all that I see, everything that makes me smile and is healing me, into unique artworks. My vision is very emotional, intuitive and positive; with brightly colored gestural brushwork and a passionate reference to the oneness with nature.

I am proud that my art has been part of important international exhibitions like Art Week Miami or Basel Art Week, etc. As a full-time artist, I am always looking for the next opportunity to express my everyday experiences in my art. For over 15 years I have built up a renowned name in the art scene and am also receiving more and more recognition worldwide, e.g. B. in USA, Canada, Japan, etc.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

I had sold a very large artwork to an entrepreneur in Austria through an online gallery where I have showcased most of my works. He payed a lot of money for that artwork and the shipping. He wanted to get the work framed and the online gallery wanted to manage this.

Not only that it took more than 2 weeks for the online gallery to find a framer but the framing took again more than 3 weeks. The client got no information nor help by the gallery. So I took over and informed the client every time I got new information.

But as the framed work finally arrived at the client’s home it was only insecurely packed in a normal paper box – and the frame was totally damaged! The client refused the acception and so the work was stored at the shipping company for more weeks.

All the time I kept in touch with the client and tried to get more information from the gallery which was really exhausting. In the end the gallery accepted to pay the new framing and the client was totally happy with my work. Nevertheless he never wanted to buy through this gallery again.

But because I held the connection I asked him personally after some weeks, if he needed any other work and offered him 3 new large works for a special price and told him that I would deliver it personally for not having the same problems again. He chose one more artwork and I gained the whole price this time. We delivered it personally to Austria and he definitely will get back to me with a commission piece.

So for me it is absolutely necessary and a basic need to keep in touch and build a personal relationship to clients to build trust.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

The most rewarding aspect for me of being an artist is being able to express myself, my emotions, my needs, my empathy through my art, a sort of psychic hygiene and being able to create the same emotions, healing, positivity, joy in people looking at my art.

When a client tells me that my work is hanging over her table in the dining room and she loves to begin the day with looking at it because it brings her real joy and it brings a smile to her face – that’s makes me proud and happy and complete. That closes the circle from me, my inspiration, my emotion to the emotion of the client and changes the whole atmosphere of a room to a totally positive vibration.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.utebivona.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ute_bivona_art/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ute-bivona-brosowsky-19b44459
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@utebivona