Julia Swaby is an abstract artist with international exposure. Her work hangs in collections from New York to Paris. She has completed work for a number of commissions, including for interior design projects in Mayfair, London.

Julia sees her practice as a way of transcending cognition and entering into pure being state (‘essere’). It is her imperative to capture a state of surrender in her paintings, which is typically on oversized canvases, painted in oils. Her style is somewhere between non-figurative abstract and expressionism.

Julia’s greatest influences are Zao Wou-Ki, Frank Bowling and William Turner. From Zao Wou-Ki, she draws on his deconstruction of nature and use of contrast. From Bowling, a courageous opulence of colour. Turner is an inspiration for many contemporary painters; for Julia, she focuses on his dynamic rendering of natural light.

Julia Swaby

Artworks by Julia Swaby

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An Immense Compressed Energy by Julia Swaby

Oil painting

Fantaisie Impromptu by Julia Swaby

Oil painting

Eternal Exchange of Energy by Julia Swaby

Oil painting

Joy II by Julia Swaby

Oil painting

Tuscan Hillside by Julia Swaby

Oil painting

Fragrance of Heaven by Julia Swaby

Oil painting

Remedy Against Thunder by Julia Swaby

Oil painting

The Creative Spirit by Julia Swaby

Oil painting

Sensitivus by Julia Swaby

Oil painting

Earth Bloom by Julia Swaby

Oil painting

The Prelude by Julia Swaby

Oil painting

Joy Series I by Julia Swaby

Oil painting