Who is Christina Julsgaard?
Christina Julsgaard transmits her drive and energy through modern, abstract and colorful strokes of acrylic on canvas.
She is an energetic artist and designer, with a passion for the graphic, clean and colorful look.
What does she want to express?
She invites the viewer to explore her paintings and let their imagination create pictures, thoughts and feelings.
"I love to experience people's reactions and views of my paintings. Many find stories and images in my paintings which reflect their own lives and thoughts, which is very fascinating," says Christina Julsgaard with a smile.
Christina Julsgaard sees life as a wonderland of opportunity, where only your imagination sets boundries. She invites the viewer to think positive and believe in themselves.
There are more than one conclusion in her paintings, which gives the beholder free opportunity to flip and rotate them as you wish.
How does she do it?
The energy level is high when Christina Julsgaard is making her paintings. She loves to create and discover new techniques and color combinations, which characterizes her creative process, with an open spontaneity and immediate intuition.
When she faces the raw empty canvas, she can hardly wait to get started and see the result. Some paintings occur within a short time and others are more challenging and has several years in the making.
She finds inspiration from a myriad of internal images and a deep fascination and joy of life.
For how long has she been painting?
Christina Julsgaard made her first artpainting with acrylic on canvas in 2001. For many years she sold her paintings through her profile fashionstore in Copenhagen, where she also sold her own clothing line YIIP Copenhagen.
Today you can buy her paintings through galleries, art fairs and solo exhibitions.
She has always dealt with the abstract painting, since this is where she finds the greatest freedom.
Though sometimes a set image appears in her paintings.
Where does she come from?
Christina Julsgaard is a multi-artist. As ultra-creative young designer and entrepreneur with a head full of ideas and dreams, she created an early successful career in the fashion industry.
She has designed collections which has been sold i more than 10 countries worldwide.
After 14 years as a fashion designer and business owner Christina Julsgaard is now focusing on artwork, designprojects and Visual conceptual comunication.
Whats does the critics say?
The magic of the abstract painting
Christina Julsgaard and painting
Christina Julsgaard knows the art of composing her images with an ease that is charming and a raw strength that comes from a strong artistic temperament. She can force the graphic tension, just as required by the abstract expression. She has a creative mind, it will take to the abstract expression becomes not only to repeat. And she holds the lyrical minds that needed for the paintings exude poetry and mood.
Ole Lindboe, editor of Arts Magazine, author of numerous books on Danish and foreign artists.