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I create from nostalgia—layering vintage paper and paint to honor memory, emotion, and the fading beauty of books and handwritten words.
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Julia Shilo is a contemporary figurative artist whose practice combines exceptional technical restraint with psychological explorations of identity, instinct, vulnerability, and the inner self.
Her ongoing Blueism series is created using a single pigment: Prussian Blue. Shilo does not use white paint; every area perceived as light is the untouched white canvas itself. This radical limitation requires precision and anticipation. Highlights must be preserved before the brush reaches the surface, while depth, transparency, anatomy, and atmosphere are constructed entirely through variations in pressure, layering, and pigment density.
Within this monochromatic world, female bodies appear submerged in water, crossed by refracted light, fish, reflections, and shadows. Sirens, mermaids, and nymph-like figures emerge not as illustrations of mythology but as psychological forms through which instinct, desire, vulnerability, and self-recognition can be explored.
For Shilo, nudity represents a state before social definition — the body stripped of roles, expectations, and externally imposed identities. Water further destabilizes those boundaries, allowing the figure to dissolve and reform within the same image.
Shilo was a participant in the 2025 London Art Biennale and ranked No. 1 in Artfinder's Top 40 Best Selling Artists in July 2026.
Her work asks what remains when visual and psychological noise is removed. With one color, one surface, and nowhere for technique to hide, Shilo creates paintings that are both technically disciplined and deeply introspective.
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Painting . 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting . 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
€661
Painting . 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting . 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
€661
Fine Art Drawings . 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
€454
Fine Art Drawings . 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€208
Painting . 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting . 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€661
Fine Art Drawings . 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€283
Painting . 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting . 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€472
Painting . 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting . 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€709
Painting . 40 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting . 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
€709
Painting . 40 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting . 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
€567
Painting . 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting . 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
€283
Fine Art Drawings . 50 x 34.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 19.7 x 13.7 x 0 inch
€255
Painting . 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting . 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€472
Painting . 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting . 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
€283
Fine Art Drawings . 42 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 16.5 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€472
Fine Art Drawings . 30 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€472
Painting . 76 x 86 x 0.1 cm Painting . 29.9 x 33.9 x 0 inch
€3,024
Painting . 198 x 86 x 4 cm Painting . 78 x 33.9 x 1.6 inch
€7,560
Painting . 137 x 97 x 4 cm Painting . 53.9 x 38.2 x 1.6 inch
€5,670
Painting . 138 x 56 x 4 cm Painting . 54.3 x 22 x 1.6 inch
€6,615
Print . 83 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print . 32.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€378
Painting . 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting . 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,039
Painting . 107 x 66 x 0.1 cm Painting . 42.1 x 26 x 0 inch
€3,685
Painting . 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting . 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€945
Painting . 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,039
Print . 93 x 35 x 0.1 cm Print . 36.6 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€378
Painting . 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting . 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€661
Print . 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€331
Painting . 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting . 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€661
Fine Art Drawings . 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
€331
Fine Art Drawings . 50 x 32.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 19.7 x 12.8 x 0 inch
€425
Fine Art Drawings . 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
€331
Fine Art Drawings . 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€283
Painting . 30 x 21 x 0.25 cm Painting . 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€520
Painting . 20 x 20 x 3 cm Painting . 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
€283
Painting . 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting . 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
€661
Painting . 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting . 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
€331
Fine Art Drawings . 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
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Fine Art Drawings . 42 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 16.5 x 11.8 x 0 inch
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Painting . 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting . 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
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Fine Art Drawings . 29.7 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
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Painting . 70 x 50 x 1.7 cm Painting . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
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Painting . 50.2 x 35 x 0.4 cm Painting . 19.8 x 13.8 x 0.2 inch
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Painting . 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting . 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
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Painting . 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting . 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
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Painting . 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting . 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
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Painting . 30 x 110 x 0.1 cm Painting . 11.8 x 43.3 x 0 inch
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Fine Art Drawings . 29.7 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
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Fine Art Drawings . 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
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Painting . 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting . 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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Painting . 127 x 45 x 0.1 cm Painting . 50 x 17.7 x 0 inch
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Fine Art Drawings . 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
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Fine Art Drawings . 30 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings . 11.8 x 16.5 x 0 inch
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Painting . 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting . 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
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Painting . 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting . 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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