Meet the On-line Artist // Eva Maria Butscher

Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Specifically, we would love to hear about your background.

I’m Eva Maria, 35, currently living in Austria on Lake Constance, where I’m building my freelance practice. I start working as an artist and healer, translating expression and lived experience into free-form art, illustrations, and writing — both prose and poetry. I studied emotional psychology, but in practice I work as an energy practitioner, helping people reconnect with their intuition and inner strength. My art expresses that same work from a different angle. The little princess is the leading figure in what I do, because in general, it’s my gift to make invisible things visible also when people try to hide it ;-).

As an energetic healer and artist, I paint intuitively, from within. My images aren’t depictions of something external; they’re a direct translation of inner experience into form and color. In my paintings, I make the invisible visible.

That’s my calling in my energetic work too: making patterns and old emotions visible. Because to make something visible is to make it conscious, and that’s how I make consciousness explainable to the world. In the end, it’s what allows us to free ourselves from old patterns and beliefs.

How would you describe your artistic practice?

I create mixed-media pieces using acrylic and hand-drawn illustrations, alongside stories, poetry, and other creative forms. I’d describe my practice as very free and intuitive — art often emerges as a byproduct of my energy work, which is deeply spiritual in nature. Color is central to how I express myself, because words alone feel too limited.

With my inner eye, I see often many coulors in the world, vivid and filled of life. But sometimes, you see also the darkness.

A few threads run through my work:
Organic rather than geometric — my forms flow, wind, and branch out rather than ending in clean straight lines. Even where there’s symmetry, it feels more like a natural phenomenon — a mandala, a blossom, a halo of rays — than something constructed.
Color as language, not decoration — my color choices (bold pink, turquoise, gold, violet) carry meaning, not just aesthetics. Color communicates a state, not just a mood.
Mixed media with gold leaf — the gold brings in an almost sacred, archaic quality, as if something ancient is speaking through the images.
Image and word merging — in some pieces, text isn’t a caption but part of the form itself. I let word and image flow into one another instead of keeping them separate.
Process over outcome — I often don’t yet know what a piece means as it’s emerging. My practice trusts expression before understanding catches up. Art isn’t separate from my energetic work — it’s another form of it.

What is your methodology or process for creating a new project?

I usually paint and write from an inner impulse, without knowing in advance what will emerge. Depending on the intention behind a piece, I sometimes set a focus or a guiding question — for example, exploring a larger theme like “What is consciousness, really?” through the work itself.

One recent painting turned the question literally into its form, rather than just titling it. Another shows a radiant, archaic-feeling structure around a small, receiving figure.

Tell us about the project you’re working on during your online residency at GlogauAIR

I’m working toward clarity on what direction I want to pursue as an artist, and how to connect that with my work as a psychologist and healer. I’m exploring how to bring consciousness work — along with the importance of feeling and energetic awareness — closer to people. My intention is to find the next step for myself as a freelancer through this process, and to give my artistic practice a clearer position and direction.