BIO + CV
Yuliya was born in 1980 in Soviet Kazakhstan to a family of civil engineers.
She grew up between an industrial desert town on the Caspian Sea and the pine‑lined lakes of the northern border — a landscape that quietly shaped her sense of scale, solitude, and wonder.
The eldest of two sisters, she began formal art training at age ten. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, she earned a scholarship to a top law school in Almaty, but new language restrictions closed the path to legal practice. She completed an English‑taught MBA and returned home, where the booming oil and gas industry quickly absorbed her skills.
In 2005 she moved to Aberdeen, later relocating to London to work across the international energy sector. Following the 2008 financial downturn, she stepped away from contracting to pursue full‑time legal studies, earning a Master’s in Law (Dispute Resolution) from Queen Mary University of London and completing the GDL at BPP. She then worked in wealth management until 2015 — the year she finally chose to follow her artistic calling.
Once she committed to her practice, Yuliya developed a distinct visual language with remarkable speed. Her early large‑scale watercolours and cloud‑filled surfaces earned her the nickname Paper Plane Girl at artist‑led fairs, where her fragile little plane became a symbol of resilience and lift.
Her opulent cloudscapes soon pushed her work into semi‑abstract territory — vast, fluid, quietly defiant. It was an unexpected but fitting evolution for an independent female artist from a small desert town who loved working with uncontrollable mediums.
From 2017 to 2019, Yuliya lived between Moscow and London, supporting her partner’s career and pausing UK exposure. On returning, she joined the thriving creative communities at Wimbledon Art Studios and Delta House in Earlsfield.
During the turbulent COVID years she became a mother and moved with her family to Caversham, Berkshire, where they lovingly renovated their home.
Today, Yuliya’s practice extends far beyond cloudscapes.
Her collections — Blue Bay, La Femme Nuage, and House of Eden — weave new narratives through her unmistakably luminous, semi‑abstract language. Refusing to be confined to a single direction, she works across canvas, paper, and wood, exploring scale, gesture, and atmosphere with equal boldness.
She has presented a conceptual solo show at a contemporary museum in Henley‑on‑Thames, regularly exhibits at major art fairs and galleries, and works closely with collectors, corporate art consultants, advisors and other artists internationally.
Inspiration
I use various media to create series of works channeling my excessive emotional energy onto the surface and allowing to escape from reality without leaving the studio.
The subject matter is often to lift the weight of existence and find a thread that pulls you forward to evolve and change yourself or your attitude towards challenging circumstances in life.
Inspiration comes within. The final outcome of the artwork is often uncertain. Where do you draw a last line is existential to every piece I consider finished. It starts with need to lock myself in the studio room and find way to the outer places within.
exhibitions
2026 Dalloz Contemporary, Blossom, Jun 04-18
Caversham Art Trail, Open Studios, 9-10, 16-17 May
Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, Tom Cox, May
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, Tom Cox, March
Cheltenham Art Fair, Racecourse, Adlib, Apr
London Art Fair x DA Gallery, Jan
Alexandra Palace Art Fair, London, Adlib Gallery, Jan
Contemporary Collective, Bankside Hotel Art Residency
2025 Cube Gallery, Christmas Show, Marylebone, London
Adlib Gallery (Blue Bay-ong) - Wimbledon Village, London
Manchester Art Fair, Adlib Gallery
DA Gallery, Bankside Hotel, White Cube, Group show
Henley Arts Festival, Old Fire Station Art Gallery
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, Tom Cox Art Gallery, best seller
River & Rowing Museum, Oxfordhire, Solo Feb
2024 River & Rowing Museum, Oxfordshire, Solo Dec
HUNTSMAN, Savile Raw, Mayfair Art Week, Jun-Jul
Henley Arts Trail, Oxfordshire May 04-06
Neptune Stores, Reading, solo, Apr 13-14
Thames Lido, Solo, Whatever the weather, solo Apr 2024
Tom Cox Art Gallery, Three, Group Show, Arp 04-14
Affordable Art Fair Battersea, Tom Cox Gallery
Singul Art, Stuttgart Show Room, Germany
2023 The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, London
The Art Buyer Gallery, Thames Ditton, Surrey
Tom Cox Gallery, Summer Show, London
2021 The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, London
2020 Best Sold Artist of All Times Saatchi Art
Infinity Room, White Box Gallery, Bankside Hotel London
2019 Affordable Art Fair Battersea, Degree Art
RVP Gallery, Wilmslow, Manchester
Open Studios Delta House, Wimbledon
The Auction Collective, Bankside Hotel, London
Henley Regatta & Art Festival, Art Elite
The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, London
2018 Interio 22, Art Play, Moscow
The Other Art Fair, Holborn, London, UK
Cass Art Exhibition Flag Store & Rise Art, Islington, London
2017 The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, London
Saatchi Art + Samsung, London, Clerkenwell Design Week
Decorative Art Fair, Battersea Park, London
Catherine Miller Art Gallery, Chelsea, London
The Other Art Fair, Holborn, London
2016 Aubergine Gallery, Wimbledon, London
Edinburg Art Fair, represented by Gaudi Gallery, Madrid
Solo, Art Gallery 657 Studio, Fulham Rd, London
Cover page - Saatchi Art Autumn 2016 Printed Catalogue
Hoxton Arches, London, with Meet the Artists
Whitechapel Gallery, London, Creative Debuts
Hoxton Hotel Gallery, Holborn, London, Creative Debuts
Art Room 2016, Melia White House Hotel, London
2015 Maze Art OXO Tower Barge House, London
Wells Art Contemporary 2015, Somerset, UK
Artist of the Day (twice), Inside the Studio, Saatchi Art
on the big screen & TV
2025
2016
2015
Wild Cherry, BBC 6 part dramma, Large Migration piece
Doctor Strange, Marvel movie, 2 artworks for the filming set decoration
US Drama Scandal, from episode 515, series since 2012, ABC studios
corporate display
2023-26 represented by ARTIQ, many London City offices incl magic circle law firms
2026 The Legend of The Seas, world largest Disney Cruise, La Femme Nuage
2021 Park Hyatt Aviara 5*, Florida
2020 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York
2020 Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Chicago
2019 Spirit of Discovery Luxury Cruise-ship, SAGA
2018 Timbers Kauai Hawaii - with Eaton Fine Art, Blue Bay for new built hotel
2016 Oliver, (Marketing Agency) Old St, London, with Creative Debuts
2016 Black + White Offices, Shoreditch, London, with Creative Debuts
2016 20 Canada Square, City of London (Property Developer)
2015 Werner Capital (Property Developer), Belgravia, London
2013 Bonas MacFarlane (Educational Consultancy), Battersea, London