Julia Maleeva

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 f...

Julia has BA in Fine Arts and MA in Architecture. Julia’s post-graduate specialisation in Architectural Heritage was in Pennsylvania USA. This work was commissioned by the HABS/HAER and included architectural surveys, detailed ink sketches and drawings of historic bridges and factories which can be seen in the US Library of Congress.

My Three Seas - Penwith Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall, 2024

Midsummer Dreams in Yellow, Orange and Lime – Wimbledon Fine Art London, 2023

Translucent Colours – SPRING Cheltenham, 2023

Winter Salon - Graham Hunter Gallery, London, 2022