Julia Prikhodko

Country where you live:

Sweden

City where you live:

Stockholm

Website:

https://www.juliaprikhodko.com/

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/kedisketch/

Statement :

When I was a kid, a world around me was very simple. When there is nothing redundant around, you start to admit details. How a butterfly is born from a chrysalis. How a wing of a dragonfly shines. After my family moved out from Kazakhstan, where all I had was absolutely naked steppe, I got a new world full of green forests. This was the world full of infinite beauty and depth of the nature and botany.

Today when I create my illustrations, graphical fine arts or sketches, I full fill them with details and botanical motifs. As a result I get illustrations-researches of my feelings, emotions and wishes at the junction of complicated adult’s and a bit naive kid’s world.

Every artwork has some inner conflict, contradiction, which is natural to feel when you are an adult. Which I feel as an adult. The source of inspiration for my artworks is exactly these mixed feelings.

I use two opposite mediums to tell my stories visually: paper with liner pens and digital tools. While interacting with paper and a pen, there is a magic feeling of creating something distinctive only ones. But digital tools at the same time give enough space for experiments with illustration.

A tree that monkey can not climb (Maymun Çıkmaz Ağacı)

This is a hand-drawn series of graphical fine arts made on A3-format paper with liner pens. This is a story about midday dreams, inspired by the experiences and feelings that the day of an adult leaves. As an aftertaste of lived experiences or anticipation of unrealized ideas, unknown unvisited places, unseen beauty. These artworks show the beauty of Turkish botany. Thus the name of every artwork is connected to the real plants.

Orchid tree (Orkide Ağacı)

Bio:

Art was always one of the ‘5 big things’ in Julia’s life. From kindergarten’s artworks and 5 years of art school to current moment with no option to escape this inner call.

Julia mostly works with graphical materials such as paper and liner pens and digital tools to provide bigger room for experiments. Her visual stories are illustrations-reflections which resonate with mixed feelings and inner conflicts. They show the complexity of adult’s life with an aftertaste of naïve kid’s worlds. Extensive usage of botanical motifs is a particular way, how Julia sees the beauty in the world around her.

In order to provide the infinite growth as an artist Julia does mentoring program with great illustrator Gleb Solntsev; finished professional illustration course. She also worked over some successful commercial projects including partnership with illustration agency Bang!Bang!Studio.

Born in Kazakhstan, lived in Germany, Turkey, Russia. Currently lives in Sweden.