Meet Julia Kalli
Julia Kalli is a classically trained abstract artist who creates original paintings with acrylic on canvas specifically designed to fit to a variety of home interiors and styles as wall decoration artworks.
Julia developed her unique impressionist style full of vivid colours and fascinating shapes easily flowing and mixing with each other and joyfully playing with the observer. Julia’s artworks enlighten home spaces with colourful accents, create cosy and livable environments turning any space into cosy home and bringing a unique touch of artist’s individuality.
My Story
I am struggling to define myself. Really. Let me explain. On one hand, I am an Information Technology Manager with a second education in Art, who loves painting. Or rather.. I am an Artist who happens to manage IT projects. I know - this is confusing, but I love both.
In different periods of my life I tried different mediums: oil, watercolour, pencils.. Today I fall in love with acrylics which combines I believe airy transparency of watercolours, solid assertiveness of oil colours and even sharp precision of pencils.
I am currently creating from three cities: Sydney, London and Dubai and each one of them gives me some specific inspiration for my art. Dubai is about sea, desert and skyscrapers suddenly appearing through the air shimmering with the scorching heat. Sydney is all in its harbours - magnificent and spacious making you fall in love with sails, waves and sunsets. London is filled with multicoloured diverse crowds, the smell of morning coffee, art and heritage. Love it. Enjoying my life. Hopefully I convey this feeling through my paintings! :)
Artist Statement
“Dancing Melody of Vivid Colours.”
Unlike realism, abstract art provides vast room for interpretation. Why are shapes and colours like these? Is there any meaning or a sign or a symbol?
Embarking on a fascinating journey to find a root cause of my paintings I tried to chase the very moment of the image's inception but it was always slipping through my fingers and escaping my mind. Certainly upfront I have a plan for every picture, an inspiration, some images crowding in front of my mental vision. But starting a painting I could never predict how it would end.
The moment I touch my canvas with the very first brush strokes.. magically the painting starts its own life and literally dictates every next bit of colour and shape.. My mission is to listen carefully, follow precisely and let the it come through. Something that is already there, in the infinite multi dimensional space of subconsciousness, but not yet visible to everyone.
In a sense all of my future paintings already exist and I am just a medium helping this parallel reality to materialise in our world..