BIO
Ula Patoka is a Bay Area-based artist, illustrator, and creative entrepreneur working at the intersection of fashion, opera, and hand-drawn craft. With an MBA from the Open University Business School and nearly two decades in marketing and brand strategy, she brings a rare combination of visual instinct and strategic thinking to everything she makes. She serves as Advisory Board Member for UCVP, the Ukrainian Classical Voice Project, leading creative and marketing strategy for a landmark anthology of Ukrainian operatic arias. Her limited edition prints, wearable art, and opera illustrations are made by hand in her studio in Campbell, California.
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I make art the way I live — free, real, by my own rules.
Hand-drawn, emotionally honest, rooted in craft. Every piece is made fully by hand — a stylus, a brush, no shortcuts.
My work lives at the intersection of fashion, folk tradition, opera, and the California light I now call home. It doesn't fit one category. Neither do I.
I create limited prints, wearable art, and illustrated pieces for people who want something on their wall — or their body — that actually means something. Not decoration. Presence.
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