My name is Oliver. I was born in Switzerland and now live and work in Bulgaria. For most of my life, achievement felt like survival. I grew up around instability and addiction. From a young age, I felt like I had something to prove, that I would not repeat the past, that I would build something meaningful with my life. So I became a high performer.

In 2020, I quit my job and became a full-time artist. My work began selling internationally and entered private collections around the world, some displayed alongside blue-chip artists. From the outside, it looked like I had arrived. People told me they always knew I would be successful.

I thought I had finally made it, but the truth was harder to admit. Even then, I was still the scared child trying to earn his worth, just on a bigger stage. If I didn’t reach the next goal, my mind would whisper that it was all temporary. That I wasn’t good enough.

That I had to achieve more. Success had become my identity, the only thing I had. And when I couldn’t work at full speed anymore, when inspiration stopped and I was emotional burned out,I felt like I had lost who I was, that I failed again.

After my last exhibition in 2023, I moved countries. Everything slowed down. For the first time in years, I couldn’t force work and creativity. I felt so much guilt for resting. Shame for not producing. Fear that if I slowed down, everything would disappear.

Then, nothing disappeared.

Instead, I changed.

I realized that defining myself through achievement had become a prison. I had believed that at some milestone I would finally feel good enough. That if I proved enough, succeeded enough, produced enough, the insecurity would disappear.

It never did.

That realization gave birth to the Inner Ocean series. I created again, not to prove anymore, but because I needed it.

The ocean became my visual language, not as a literal landscape, but as a metaphor for how the ocean makes me feel, how it slows me down and shows me that I am okay already now.

These paintings aren’t planned in detail.

They unfold.

I move with them instead of controlling them. The deep blues, soft whites, and touches of gold aren’t symbolic in a dramatic way, they just feel like calm to me, they make me stop and enjoy even just for a moment.

My new transformed work is for those who have achieved a lot and are learning that slowing down does not mean falling apart.

It is for high performers, entrepreneurs, visionaries, and deep thinkers who want their spaces to reflect not only ambition, but the peace they dream or once "they arrived".

Every painting is an invitation:

To breathe before you arrive.

To BE without proving.

To feel enough in your own rhythm.

And to let go of the guilt and shame that so many of us have when we are not constantly on.

This is not decorative art.

It is a visual permission slip.

If you have built success and are ready to feel peace within it, my work was created for you.