Born in the UK and growing up in both Brazil and London, with artists Liz Miranda and Luiz Aquila for parents (and, as it happens, Nina Miranda of Zeep/Smoke City for a sister), Julia’s life has been one immersed in creativity, intrigue and composition. Residing and working these days in North London, she reflects that it was in Brazil she discovered colour, and in hindsight and contrast, how the cold and snow of the late winter so heavily influenced her painting, keeping busy and warm in her Tufnell Park studio which she revealed: “it’s a favela, it’s a tip, it’s freezing”. Continue Reading