Meet Petra Schott

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Petra Schott. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Petra, we’re so appreciative of you taking the time to share your nuggets of wisdom with our community. One of the topics we think is most important for folks looking to level up their lives is building up their self-confidence and self-esteem. Can you share how you developed your confidence?

I think my self-esteem grew over time with me accepting and liking what I created in my paintings. The more and the longer I painted, the more I developed the confidence that in the end something interesting will come out. And of course it is also very important to have some recognition form others, be it over social media or from friends and in exhibitions,

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

I am an abstract painter living in Frankfurt, Germany, mainly working with oil paints.
My art opens the space beyond words and thus creates a new freedom of immediate knowledge and feeling. It absorbs my longings, experiences, and visions, giving them a new urgency and substance. This is my way to rediscover what I lost during childhood, to reshape the thread that connects me to my roots, nature and humanity. I thus let my subconscious speak to reveal my own being in a deep way. I feel that painting connects me to my true nature.
In the process, I allow my intuition to lead the way towards the unknown. Through the interplay of colors, textures, and shapes, my paintings guide me towards self-discovery and introspection.
I like to scribble into my paintings to support the process and to gather all that is important in the moment. My scribblings are my thoughts, my associations and memories. In order to have my intuitive part speaking I mostly draw with my left hand. My primary medium is oil. I love its opulence, softness, and the profound depth and naturalness of its colors. However, at the end of my creative process, oil seems to have permeated every corner of my studio and my cloths. Yet, I revel in this delightful creative chaos. It aligns with the wisdom shared by the German writer Arno Geiger: „Art does not save us from chaos but from order.”
Ultimately, my artistic vision is to create a space where viewers can find solace and inspiration for reshaping their own being.- My work is represented in galleries around the world and present in many private collections.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

I think for me it was always this need to create and this pleasure of working with colours, which has driven me to go deeper and deeper into painting. There is more than we can express with words and I was always interested in this other realm beyond words, I always liked to open doors to my subconscious world.
And then, I think, it is just the quality of being able to go on, to work on a regular basis in my studio, to feel this passion for what I do. But I think, this is a very personal journey, so I always hesitate to give advice. For me, it was my strong need to go and on and believe in myself.

Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?

Of course, there were many books I read and which have played a role in my development. But there is one book I like to always have in my studio : It is Jerry Saltz ‘How to be an artist’. Already browsing through the chapter titles makes me smile: ‘Work, Work, Work’, ‘Listen to the Wildest Voices in your Head’, ‘Be Inconsistent’, ‘There are no Wasted Days’, ‘Finish the Damn Thing’ – and these are only a few. It is absolutely uplifting, I feel it is true and it is fun reading. So, this is my medicine in order to have no ‘wasted days’!

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.petra-schott.de
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/petra.schott.art/