About Ursula Hirländer


Learn more about Ursula Hirländer, a contemporary artist based in London, Ontario. She creates figurative and abstract paintings and fine art prints that blend intuition, and feminine wisdom.

  

 

 

 

I create raw, expressive paintings that honour freedom, intuition, and the quiet strength of the inner world. My work grows out of a deeply personal practice and is meant to offer a feeling of recognition, and homecoming to the viewer.

Bio

Ursula Hirländer is an Austrian-born artist based in London, Ontario, who believes that creativity is not a talent reserved for a few, but a sacred birthright shared by all.

Her work is rooted in the conviction that artistic expression holds the power to reveal personal truth, awaken feminine wisdom, and reconnect us to the quiet magic of community and belonging.

Before fully turning toward painting, Ursula trained in the heritage craft of millinery and spent ten years as head of the millinery department at the United Theatres in Graz, Austria, where she designed hats and masks for the performing arts. This early work with form, texture, character, and transformation continues to echo through her paintings.

Her artistic path was recognized early. At eighteen, she won first prize in a province-wide art competition in Austria, which led to the honour of exhibiting her work in the Vatican City State and being featured in the Vatican newspaper.

Her paintings are raw, expressive, and intimately layered, inviting viewers to pause, feel, and recognize fragments of their own story within each piece.

Today, Ursula works from her London, Ontario studio, a creative sanctuary where she creates layered, expressive paintings guided by intuition, emotion, and a deep reverence for the unseen threads that connect us to ourselves, to nature, and to one another.



Artist Statement

My art is a pursuit of freedom, a visual practice of self-realization, spiritual exploration, and connection to something both ancient and deeply personal. Each piece becomes an offering shaped by emotion, energy, and the unseen threads that tether us to the sacred.

Rooted in the spirit of my heritage, my work is guided by intuition and a reverence for ritual. I layer textures, natural pigments, gold leaf, spray paint, and bold, instinctive marks to build visual landscapes that feel both wild and intentional. These materials allow me to move within the liminal space between the physical and the mystical, between what is visible and what is felt.

Creating is a sacred act for me. It is how I remember who I am, how I access the unseen, and how I move through shadow into light. My process is fluid and instinctive, a conversation between chaos and form, between what is known and what is still emerging.

Through each painting, I invite the viewer to pause, feel, and reconnect with their own inner wildness and with the ancient rhythms that continue to pulse beneath the surface of modern life.