Anxiety, Poetry, Death: Gloomy Paintings by Julia Soboleva

Julia Soboleva is a Manchester-based artist who paints frightening paintings in the spirit of David Lynch’s surrealist aesthetic. Soboleva’s paintings are as abstract as possible, yet deeply poetic enigmas about peace, loneliness, and death.

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