Arts
Maria is an artist living in Stockholm, Sweden. She paints mostly abstract landscapes in watercolors and acrylics. Her aim is to capture the majestic nature and reserved cultural atmosphere of Scandinavia in her art. Her hope is that her work will bring a sense of calm to the viewer.This episode is about Maria's story of growing into an artist. She shares her personal struggles and where she is at now in her journey. We talked a lot about making art and what stands in the way and how to approach it. There is a lot of great advice for creatives.This episode is a treat for visual artists and painters as her approach to art is inspiring and uplifting. I really hope you'll enjoy the conversation as much as I did and take something of value out of it.Here's what we talk about in this episode:a little intro about Maria and her workgrowing up with an artist mother and how she felt afraid of her work being compared to her mother'schoosing graphic design over painting and making art to follow the structure plus rules and saving herself from getting it wrongpainting for the sake of the process in privatemoving through the discomforttaking a leap and taking two years off to paint and figure out what she would like to be doing nexthow she is managing her time and work onlinemanaging the company and showing her work onlinethe creative freedom that we all long fortaking the pressure off by allowing yourself to not make money from your artfinding your style and how to go about itputting in the hours in your art practice is importanthow she approaches paintingways to keep yourself motivated and not getting disappointed along the waycreating without focusing on a specific outcome but creating for the sake of creatingan exercise for perfectionists who would like to paintthe 100 day project of paintinghow one can take the pressure off your paintingsgrowing and developing as an artistdetaching your self-worth from your work allows you to experiment morelearning to not think what other people say about your art because it is not for everyoneadvice for someone who is starting outinvesting in fewer good materials instead of having more cheaper onesstruggles with not wanting to waste the materials and how to go about ither struggles with creative blocksFind links to the resources we discuss in the full show notes.Maria's website and InstagramHira's website and InstagramSign up for letters from Hira