Artist statement: "Let Art happen is like a silent dance, with invisible feelers, through which unobtrusive, magical unspeakable things manifest themselves in the visible." 

People write stories all their lives and leave traces, including yourself. The attempt to connect everything with everything, to make it understandable, abstract often philosophical terms and topics such as love, hope, longing, seeks, perspective, dismay, "light closes darkness", banning and channeling, “secrets cover the soul” etc. and giving them a form, characterizes my artistic exploration. One parameter for me is absolute freedom...freedom from different media, techniques, forms of expression (such as p.ex. the botanical sun pressure). I have found a new process-oriented, sustainable, nature-related approach by researching and creating my own, natural paints and pigments from plants, soil and stones and a step further to grow, harvest and extract or process my pigments and canvases, to spin and weave another process, a new, even more holistic and conceptual approach. Therefore, art is probably the only ambit in which I have never been anyway restricted. I've always been an artist, found the secret way through art therapy. But it took a long time and courage to position myself radically soft to the outside and to become more visible. My story is, like everyone else, very individual, also my way, just like the trace I want to leave behind. I'm a finder and definitely haven't reached the end by now...to be continued.

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Mag.phil. Angela Olbrich was born in Vienna 1975. Studied art history, media and communications at University of Vienna and art therapy at Academy of Holistic Art-Therapy, Vienna. Artistic education from youth self-taught as well as in visual and performing arts with various inspiring artists: drawing, painting, printing, dance, theater, improv theater, clown, ceramics, rhythm, performance, writing, sculpture. Artistic diploma at Academy of Holistic Art-Therapy, Vienna 2011, sevengardens dialoger 2020, Graduated certified herbal educater according to Traditional European Medicine 2021.