"Whale in the bamboo grove" Painting

Julia Maleeva is an abstract artist working with oil and cold wax. Originally from Bulgaria, she has a BA in Fine Arts and MA in Architecture, now working as a full time artist in her studio in Bristol, UK. Julia Maleeva is inspired by old houses, objects with memories, landscapes with feelings. All her sources are from her travels. The attempt to bridge the colours of Provence, Cornwall and the seaside in Bulgaria, has been a journey between sea, wind, roads, emotions, ink sketches, canvas, paint, light and an observer. For Julia Maleeva art is a deconstruction process of layers of paint waiting to be scraped and laid out in a different perspective. The way Julia is going backwards she is discovering a unique story, like a detective game to find clues from the past. Working in oils, Julia is fascinated with the interplay of different perspectives and dimensions, amalgamation of techniques. Exploring the two-dimensional relationship between form, colour and texture has always been her main interest. The challenge is to maintain the right balance between graphic lines and colours. Julia is creating a fusion of dry point and oil painting, wrapped in cold wax. Influenced by her architectural background often the protagonist is a forgotten old building or a sleepy bridge.