About Julia Swaby

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.