ABOUT

I'm Julia. I've been drawing since I was four, and somehow I never stopped.

Painting has always been a way of making sense of what stays with me — a place, a color, a particular light, sometimes a person. Photography came later, through travel, and changed the way I looked at both landscapes and painting.

I've lived and travelled across very different parts of the world, from Australia and Southeast Asia to Europe and beyond. Some places disappeared quickly. Others stayed — as colors, fragments, photographs, and eventually paintings.

I'm drawn to movement. Surfing, skiing, mountains, long roads, boats, unfamiliar cities — not as subjects in themselves, but because they change the way I see. Much of my work begins somewhere in that gap between experience and memory.

Over time, photography and painting stopped feeling like separate practices. A photograph may become a painting years later. A landscape may return only as a color. Sometimes what remains has very little to do with the place where it began.

That is probably the simplest way to describe my work: I make things from what stays.