The Holy Art meets: Julia McClurg

Julia McClurg (b 1967) is a contemporary Artist from The United States living in Costa Rica. Her artistic journey started at a very young age after she became a graduate of The Colorado Institute if Art, as well as studying Art History at Stephens College Columbia MO.). McClurg studied, and still evolves at mastering her technique as a pet portrait artist as well as her whimsy paintings of LuLu Bella her Italian Greyhound in her worldly travels. McClurg has painted numerous portraits for clients all over the world including the likes of the famous celebrities Sheryl Crowe, Kristin Davis and Kevin Costner. In her latest works, McClurg engages questions of identity as they relate to art history as well as our everyday interactions with mainstream culture and social media. Greatly inspired by modernist masters as well as pop-artists, McClurg mixes fragments of different iconic images in vivid and colorful compositions. Of her experimental and high eclectic style, she says, “art is an expression from the soul, and the soul is something limitless. This is why I am always searching for different elements to bringinto the work.”

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