Biography
Yuliya is a multidisciplinary painter born (1980) in Kazakhstan who has been living in the UK in the past 20 years. Born in a family of engineers, she grew up in the oily town of Aktau on the shores of the Caspian sea where landscapes are akin to Texan desserts.
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As a child, she was taught classical arts and later trained as a lawyer in prestigious schools both in Kazakhstan and the UK, then worked in oil and gas in Aberdeenshire and London. She felt her career was meaningless as she moved from oil in gas to wealth management after the collapse of oil markets in 2008 and in 2015 Yuliya gave up her job to seek fulfilment as
as a full time artist.
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Hard working and aspirational, she was immediately rewarded by attention of the online art platforms curators and built relationships with few contemporary art galleries in London and now in Great Tampa Bay Florida, US.
She has recently held her large solo show in River & Rowing Museum of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire and has been recognized as a well sold artist in many UK art fairs.
For many years she lived in London and was part of Wimbledon Art Studios cohort of contemporary artists, but since she became a mother in 2020, the family moved to the leafy countryside of Berkshire.
As she experiments with various media, she stays loyal to her ethereal execution where light emotion of hope with notes of nostalgic blues dominates her coastal, floral and cloudy dreamscapes. Yuliya’s most minimalistic dreamscapes always have dynamic elements highlighting artist restless and adventurous nature.
Her work has appeared in major movie sets like Marvel's Doctor Strange (2016), ABC's Scandal (2017), and will be featured in BBC drama (Wild Berry, 2025).
Yuliya’s art has been a feature in exclusive London and Berkshire clubs and fine dining lounges (amongst others - Amelie Motcomb St, Bingham of Richmond, Thames Lido, Black Radish), international luxury hotels (Hyatt Aviara, The Breakers, Timbers Kauai, many more), was part of special window dressing for Huntsman (2024), private welfare facilities in the US and in many private collections.
La Femme Nuage - Narrative
The series release coincides with Yuliya’s 10 years anniversary as a full time artist.
Over the past decade, dramatic sky formations have been a continuous source of inspiration shaping her palette and signature style. Weaving the visual narrative between opulence and deliberate scarcity into canvased realms.
In this latest iteration the artist attempts to capture ethereal cloud display with her quick petal-like brushstroke, drawing parallels between fast lived female beauty and rapidly changing clouds, confronting the impermanence of fading grace while reconciling her own aging.
PROCESS:
This is a fast paced, highly intuitive, creative process where the artist relies on her memory rather than photographs or sketches to create her signature petal like feathery cloud shapes.
The canvas is primed with lightly fluorescent coloured primer to give perfect permeability and tooth.
Then the initial artwork can be created in a matter of hours as the runny pigment needs to be placed in position quickly before it’s left to dry overnight. More often than not, Yuliya grows dissatisfied with her creations and destroys the artwork, taking it back to blank canvas with the layers of acrylic primer.
The process keeps being repeated until the artwork is found to be balanced in shape, colour and composition.
Exhibitions
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2025 Bankside Autograph Art Hotel (Mariotte Blackfriers) Residency - Nov-Feb 2026
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2025 Henley Arts Festival, Old Fire Station, Jul
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2025 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with Tom Cox, Mar
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2025 Caversham Art Trail + Henley Art Trail, Open studios May
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2025 D Gallerie Group Show , St Petersburg ,Florida
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2024 Rivers & Rowing Museum, Solo, Le Femme Nuage Dec -Feb 2025
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2024 Amelie, Fine Dining, Art Untamed, Belgravia, London
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2024 Henley Art Show, Solo, Retrospective, Henley-0n-Thames, 01-05 Aug
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2024 HUNTSMAN, Savile Raw, Mayfair Art Week, Jun-Jul
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2024 Henley Arts Trail, Oxfordshire May 04-06
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2024 Neptune Stores, Reading, Apr 13-14
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2024 Thames Lido, Solo, Whatever the weather, Apr 2024
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2024 Three, Tom Cox Art Gallery, Arp 04-14
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2024 Affordable Art Fair Battersea , Tom Cox Mar 06-10 (sold out)
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2024 Singul Art, Stuttgart Show Room, Germany
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2023 The Other Art Fair Truman Brewery
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2023 The Art Buyer Gallery, Thames Ditton, Surrey
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2023 Tom Cox Gallery, Summer Show, London
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2021 The Other Art Fair, Truman, London
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2021 Gordon Ramsey Restaurant
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2021 Open Studios, Caversham
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2020 Best Sold Artists of All Time by Saatchi Art chart
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2020 Infinity Room, Degree Art, White Box Gallery, London
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2020 The Other Art Fair, London
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2019 RVP Gallery, Group Show, Wilmslow, Manchester
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2019 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
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2019 Open Studios, Delta House, London (sw17)
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2019 The Auction Collective, Bankside hotel, London
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2019 Henley Regatta & Arts Festival with Art Ellite
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2019 The Other Art Fair, London
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2018 The New Artists Fair, London, UK
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2018 Art Show, Art Play, Moscow, Russia
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2018 The Other Art Fair, London, UK
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2018 Rise Art, Islington Cass Art Show
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2017 Other Art Fair, London, UK
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2017 Catherine Miller Art Gallery, Chelsea, London
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2017 Open studio w/e, Wimbledon London
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2017 Decorative Art Fair, London, UK
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2017 Samsung Frame launch exhibition curated by Saatchi Art, London Design Week
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2017 The Other Art Fair, London, UK
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2017 Dreamland, Solo, Piccadilly st London
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​2016 Dec Aubergine Gallery, Wimbledon, London
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2016 Edinburg Art Fair, Galeria De Arte Gaudi, Madrid
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2016 #flyingsolo, solo show, Studio 657 Art Gallery, Fulham, London
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2016 Hoxton Arches Gallery with Meet The Artists London
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2016 Whitechapel Gallery, 1st Thursdays with Creative Debuts London
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2016 Melia White House, Art Room 2016, London
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2016 Hoxton Holborn Hotel Gallery, London with Creative Debuts
Notable Collections
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2025 H&H Development, Art Collected, Dubai
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2024 Amelie, Motcomb St, Belgravia, Fine Dining, Blossom Joy
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2024 Huntsman Window Display, Savile Raw, Mayfair Art Week
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2024 The Thames Lido, Reading, Fine Dining & Spa
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2023 Bingham House Riverside, Richmond, London
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2021 The Breakers Resort 5*, Palm Beach
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2021 Gordon Ramsey Restaurant, Reading
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2020 Park Hyatt Aviara, San Diego
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2020 Memorial Sloan Kettering (Cancer Centre), New York
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2020 Bankside Hotel Autograph Collection, Southwark , London
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2020 Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Medical Facilities, Chicago
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2019 Black Radish, Fine Dining Restaurant, Wimbledon Village, London
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2019 Spirit of Discovery, John Mayor Suite, SAGA Luxury Sea Cruises
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2017 Soho House, Holborn, London
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2017 Timbers Kauai Ocean Club & Residences, Hawaii
On Screen Art Featured
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Wild Berry, BBC
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Doctor Strange, Marvel movie, 2 artworks for the filming set decoration
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US Drama Scandal, from episode 515, series since 2012, ABC studios