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Uta R. Strelive
Uta Strelive remembers feeding Blaumeise birds at her home in East Germany when she was barely tall enough to look over the window sill. Thus began her fascination with and love of birds which has never diminished. Nature and birds have been the center of her passion throughout her life.
A year after completing her B.A. in Textile Technology she fled her native East Germany and after another year was able to emigrate to Canada. There she started a career as a Biological Technologist at the University of Saskatchewan, and began part time art studies.
Three years later she worked at the Ontario Research Foundation in Toronto as a technologist until it relocated to Guelph, Ontario. In Guelph, Uta started work as an instructor in Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology at the University of Guelph. There her artistic talents were put to the test by making hundreds of scientific and technical drawings for national publications and books. However, these precise line drawings were really too structured to satisfy her artistic needs.
After 25 years as a very successful teacher, researcher, technologist and biological illustrator she sought a more artistically challenging career in Design. She won a scholarship to the International Academy of Design in Toronto, and in two years graduated at the top of her class.
Since 1981, when she discovered bird carving as an emerging art form, her favorite time is spent in her studio in Eden Mills, Ontario. There she transforms a block of wood into a biologically correct, artistically conceived sculpture. Her pieces have won first place and best of show at most competitions she has entered including the prestigious World Championship Woodcarving Competition in Ocean City, Maryland.
Uta’s birds can be found in many private and corporate collections in Canada, the United States, England, France and Germany.
Robert Paul Galleries is proud to be chosen to bring the works of Uta Strelive to the American collector.
