ABOUT ME

My Story

My name is Vera. I am a medical doctor (hand surgeon), certified hypnotherapist (Hypno-Sense-Coach) and a self-taught artist. For a very long time I asked myself where is the connection between science and art. I have found out for myself and it doesn’t exclude each other. I used to say „I am a surgeon, but also an artist“ even that time when I didn’t create anything, and even I had no clue what kind of artist.

In the last few years I concentrated fully in becoming a hand surgeon, so I hardly gave any space and time to my inner artist.

More and more different things were popping up within me - like deep desires - like to protect nature and our resources, to express myself and what was happening around me, to show my truest self, to live authentically, to share my thoughts and feelings, to create instead of consuming.

I am a visual and a high sensitive person, an introvert, I do love art since I remember, I do love color, nature, mountains and water, yoga and meditation, cycling and cross-country skiing. Painting popped up again and again, until I went to the art store in November 2019 to buy some supplies before traveling to Sri Lanka - in my small luggage paints and paper. During my stay in Sri Lanka I followed the light, the colors and patterns in nature, on houses and textiles. I observed everything around me. I gave myself a break. I allowed myself to slow down and take a deep rest. I was listening, smelling, tasting, watching and feeling, for hours and hours and hours. Listening to the birds, the wind, the rain or the sea, watching the waves, fireflies, the sky, the moon and the stars, feeling the power of the ocean, the wind in my hair, the tropic air on my skin. I pursued some soft yoga and meditation practice and went for long walks. And I started to paint again, something I’ve done regularly in my childhood and my teenage years.

In February 2020 I pursued my artist’s way by starting with an everyday painting practice. Suddenly I realized that I have bought a bestseller by incident 4 years ago: The artist’s way by Julia Cameron.

What I have found is more then I have ever expected, layer after layer.

Painting can be
...to deal with emotions
...to experiment free of fears
...to feel free, independent, alive, supported and joyful

...to unfold an inner power

...to calm down
...to live in the moment
...to connect to the deepest self and to everything
...to give birth to ideas, to the immense creativity that can be found in everyone of us

...to find a voice
...to create, to share, to express, to show up authentically, raw and honest, to shine

Painting is a way of healing, of coming home to yourself, of having a glimpse of who you truely are, of the greatness that exists in all of us.