Q Why are you an artist, Julie?
A I guess it has everything to do with the intention and expression, through which certain feelings are evoked and certain ideas are visualised. Art provides us an opportunity to become aware of the reality we live in. I create art to push myself as well as my spectators over the edge of reality; I want to transcend.
Q What is art in your own thought?
A Art does not Xerox the world around us. Art invents life; life imitates Art. Through artistic creations both our reality and our way of thinking evolve.
Q Any advice to aspiring artist?
A Dare.
Q How do you market or sell your art?
A Up until now I have been passive to participate in the market. I place some of my work on my website and have
been having contact with art galleries to put on a solo show. Maybe it’s fear. I’m driving myself crazy with
reschedule all the time. “To yes or to no”. As for selling, pricing is a sticky situation. I’m sure I’m not the only one
who feels this way.
Q Quote as an artist?
A Dare!
Q What inspires you to paint?
A Dare. Dare to imagine. Create like a god.
Q Who are your influences in Art?
A I draw influences from everywhere. Italian masters, ancient Japanese Sumi-e, Chinese ink wash, Modigliani’s
lyricism, Francis Bacon’s raw, tender and sore, Georgia O’Keeffe’s sensuality, Caravaggio’s puzzling violence…
I’m a museum junk.
Q Could you tell us more about your artworks?
Combining my background as a calligrapher/ink wash painter, I mix Chinese ink with other media to paint on
canvas (partly) grounded with hand-made Oriental paper. I attempt at an original approach towards traditional
material as well as ideas. In my artworks, text and title of every single piece have an essential place in the
composition. They add an extra layer to my concepts that find their root in the Chinese past. You can say
I “calligraphy” with colours. Inventing a style of my own, I “marry” two traditions, and redefine the concept
“East meets West”. Also I use my own home-made ink, which I prepare from seasonal flowers.
Q Besides art I do....?
A I’m a published novelist and poet; I write books. And my prose and other writings have been published in
literary mags around the world.
Q Life without art is?
A Blind.
Q What art you would like to do but unable to? Why?
Film. I hope I will find the money to make that cool movie before I die.
Q As an artist, define beauty?
A What makes me feel the rush in my blood. It begins physically, and ends deep in the veins where it leaves
a deep, heartfelt mark.
Q Years from now I will be?
A Still myself.
Q Tell us about your latest series of painting.
A It’s a series of four paintings – I work in series – that deals with the relationship between humans and hypermodern metropolis (Shanghai or Beijing for example). Floating, squirming bodies clutched between high-rises of a cold, concrete forest. Check out more at Global Artist Circle.
A I guess it has everything to do with the intention and expression, through which certain feelings are evoked and certain ideas are visualised. Art provides us an opportunity to become aware of the reality we live in. I create art to push myself as well as my spectators over the edge of reality; I want to transcend.
Q What is art in your own thought?
A Art does not Xerox the world around us. Art invents life; life imitates Art. Through artistic creations both our reality and our way of thinking evolve.
Q Any advice to aspiring artist?
A Dare.
Q How do you market or sell your art?
A Up until now I have been passive to participate in the market. I place some of my work on my website and have
been having contact with art galleries to put on a solo show. Maybe it’s fear. I’m driving myself crazy with
reschedule all the time. “To yes or to no”. As for selling, pricing is a sticky situation. I’m sure I’m not the only one
who feels this way.
Q Quote as an artist?
A Dare!
Q What inspires you to paint?
A Dare. Dare to imagine. Create like a god.
Q Who are your influences in Art?
A I draw influences from everywhere. Italian masters, ancient Japanese Sumi-e, Chinese ink wash, Modigliani’s
lyricism, Francis Bacon’s raw, tender and sore, Georgia O’Keeffe’s sensuality, Caravaggio’s puzzling violence…
I’m a museum junk.
Q Could you tell us more about your artworks?
Combining my background as a calligrapher/ink wash painter, I mix Chinese ink with other media to paint on
canvas (partly) grounded with hand-made Oriental paper. I attempt at an original approach towards traditional
material as well as ideas. In my artworks, text and title of every single piece have an essential place in the
composition. They add an extra layer to my concepts that find their root in the Chinese past. You can say
I “calligraphy” with colours. Inventing a style of my own, I “marry” two traditions, and redefine the concept
“East meets West”. Also I use my own home-made ink, which I prepare from seasonal flowers.
Q Besides art I do....?
A I’m a published novelist and poet; I write books. And my prose and other writings have been published in
literary mags around the world.
Q Life without art is?
A Blind.
Q What art you would like to do but unable to? Why?
Film. I hope I will find the money to make that cool movie before I die.
Q As an artist, define beauty?
A What makes me feel the rush in my blood. It begins physically, and ends deep in the veins where it leaves
a deep, heartfelt mark.
Q Years from now I will be?
A Still myself.
Q Tell us about your latest series of painting.
A It’s a series of four paintings – I work in series – that deals with the relationship between humans and hypermodern metropolis (Shanghai or Beijing for example). Floating, squirming bodies clutched between high-rises of a cold, concrete forest. Check out more at Global Artist Circle.