Carina Lindmeier
bluebee and Carina Lindmeier met up to talk about how social interactions and networks can lead to new opportunities and possibilities.
Carina is an illustration artist from Austria. Her style is influenced by music and typically features people, animals or plants. She paints digitally as well as with traditional material like ink and watercolours. Making art can be a lonely and stressful place. Self-doubt or too much self-confidence can hinder your artistic career and a reality check amongst other artists can level you out. Carina is part of several organisations, including the Women Who Draw, Backlab Collective and the Guild of Illustrators. “If I have a creative block or crisis, I always can
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fall back on this network to support me. But, we are also there for each other to bounce ideas and to support each other, if someone has an exhibition or event.” There is a saying in Austria “Through talking, people come together” and new things happen. Carina explained that cooperation and networks are very important in her artistic life. She recommends to network as much as possible, not only with artists from your own field, but as well as with artists from other areas. She loves connecting with artists from food and fashion
