“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:

JJocelyn Ulevicus is an American artist, writer, and poet currently based in Paris.

Her visual work often features vibrant, expressive floral compositions, serving as both emotional landscapes and meditations on impermanence. In her writing, she delves more intimately into the complexities of womanhood, grief, and healing—tracing a personal journey through loss, trauma, and transformation.

Her poetry and prose have been published or are forthcoming in The Laurel Review, SWWIM Every Day, The Free State Review, Blue Mesa Review, Humana Obscura, and others. In 2022, she received a Certificate of Artistic Achievement from the Pinacothèque Museum in Luxembourg. She is a nominee for Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee.

Her in-progress memoir, The Birth of a Tree, was shortlisted for the 2019 Santa Fe Literary Award Program. Her debut poetry collection, The Difference Between Breathing and Swallowing, was recently published by Sunday Mornings at the River Press.

Outside of her creative work, she enjoys jogging, yoga, cookies and ice cream. She values kindness—especially toward strangers and animals—above all else. She is currently working on her first full length book.