The Art of Healing
“The Art of Healing”In 2019 Julia received a diagnosis of an invasive breast cancer, instantly turning her world upside-down. The months after were intense and grueling but overpowered by Julia’s lust for life. “The Art of Healing” series is inspired by Julia’s recent journey. The series depicts humans anatomically - organs and tissues.
All paintings are surrounded by a golden circle, representing an energy feeding, nurturing and helping the organ to thrive and heal, within its own time and its own conditions. Julia feels deeply connected to this series of artworks due to the very personal and deep connection with the subject matter. It provides a glimpse into Julia’s story and extends to those that share similar stories.
Please enjoy the “The Art of Healing”
"Heartbeat"
The human heart - with flawless operation it maintains flow and life. Gateway to our inner selves and emotions. I believe that true healing begins in our heart.
The process of healing is for everyone different, but I guess everyone agrees that the heart and its heartbeat provide our lives with rhythm, activity, emotions and love.
Different shades of red symbolise love, compassion and courage. The golden circle surrounding the organ provides energy for the heart to expand and contract. The mandala depicts the universe and transcends the complexity and perfection of our hearts.
The female reproductive system - incredibly unique in its ability to create new life, change and adjust. This Artwork is about self-love, beauty and the power of life within you. Miracles.
In nature, lotus flowers grow the from dark muddy bottoms of lakes, pushing through the water's surface, and then erupting into a dazzling display of colours and life. The lotus flowers surrounding the internal vagina represent transformation and growth, for change and rebirth, and for beauty.
The green shades provide hope, trust, and healing. The gold injects energy into the organ, to help it grow and reach its full potential.
"Nurturing Life"
An anatomical structure of the female breast - a highly sensitive and adaptive organ. Milk glands, fatty tissue, cells, muscle and parts of the lymphatic system combine to form the breast. The lymphatic system keeps us healthy and acts as a transport system, moving fluids through our body.
Surrounding the breast is a circle of golden flowers and a dragonfly. The flowers represent growth and life that requires nurturing to grow and burst into life. A dragonfly symbolises change, transformation and the adaptation of the human breast to produce milk to sustain new life. The dragonfly is depicted to evoke emotion and encourage your spirit to soar.
"The Beauty Within"
"Deep Breath"
An anatomical painting of human lungs - arguably the most important thing you ever have to do, is to breath. This organ is simply amazing and critical beyond the obvious roles its plays, in areas such as stress relief through regulated breathing and oxygen control. More than 480 million alveoli exist within our lungs, with each alveoli role playing a little bubble and enabling the exchange of oxygen throughout the body.
The animals surrounding the lungs are spirit animals and in their spiritual meaning are supporting the organ to reach perfect function. The Humpback Whale encourages you to listen to your inner voice, embraces emotions and symbolises your own creative energy. The Manta Ray is sensitive to the flow of energy and can improve efficiencies and help to navigate the different depths of your emotions. The Shark helps to guide you through decisions and figure out a course of action.
"Mindpower"
The human brain - probably the most complex and sophisticated constructions known. Our mindpower, our conductor of emotional regulation, the human brain provides critical instructions to our body functions, movements and intentions. All delivered with ‘mind-blowing’ speed and accuracy, well beyond the capability of any computer.
Surrounding the Brain is different brainwaves that help us to feel connected to others, and to ourselves. Brainwaves can be thought of as virtual wires that light-up the human mind, body and spirit. Able to be clinically measured and differentiated, their function provides specific and precise outcomes. For example, the Delta brainwaves (the outer line in the painting) are the slowest moving brainwaves recorded in humans. They are most often found in infants and young children, associated with the deepest levels of relaxation and restorative, healing sleep.
"System stabiliser"
The human kidneys and bladder - often understated, their function is to perform as powerful chemical factories. Kidneys remove waste products from our bodies, including drugs and medication and help to balance the body's fluids. They release hormones that regulate blood pressure, produce an active form of vitamin D that promotes strong, healthy bones and control the production of red blood cells. The kidneys are one of the first organs built in a human fetus.
The surrounding aura, golden energy depicted is a circle of mushrooms of all types and sizes.
In nature, mushroom circles create allure due their highly complex, sophisticated and joined-up ecosystems. The mushroom circle stands for connection as they grow a large root system under the ground to communicate and coil around each other. In stark contrast, the mushroom circle is also a place of chaos and transformation. A place of rebirth and recycling of matter and life that had passed.
"Power Plant"
The human liver - one of the largest organs of the human body that has a unique ability to repair, re-grow and regenerate. It is responsible for multiple functions, participates in digestion, in the composition of blood, produces and stores energy and acts as a detoxifier.
The liver is surrounded by a cluster of purple milk thistle flowers, which are known to support and help the liver thrive. The yellow circular image relates to self-worth, how we feel about ourselves and how others perceive us.
"We are what we Eat"
The human intestine – a complex ecosystem within our bodies that is always on. Rainbow colours demonstrate the diversity, and the bacteria living inside of us and how much these bacteria are doing for us. In part, produced and promoted by the food we eat, a delicate and precise balance of these tiny living bacteria is needed to enable good health. A minor imbalance can cause mild to severe health issues.
The herbs surrounding the intestines are represent remedies which are supporting our gut and digestive system and includes: Bitter candytuft, Angelica, Caraway, Chamomile, St Maries Thistle, Lemon Balm, Greater celandine, Peppermint and Licorice.
New Picture will come once my exhibition has ended
"Impulse"
Human Neurons (or nerve cells) - fundamental units of the brain and nervous system, neurons are responsible for receiving sensory input from the external world, for sending motor commands to our muscles, and for transforming and relaying the electrical signals at every step in-between.
The painting depicts the impulsive and highly cooperative nature of neurons. When we learn something new, neurons are created (neurogenesis). When neurons are de-railed or damaged, they have the ability to mend, to self-heal.
"New Life"
A baby’s creation – innate, beautiful and astonishing, this is a woman’s ‘super-power’. When a woman is pregnant the cells of the baby migrate into her bloodstream and circulate back into the baby’s body. For around 40 weeks, these cells merge and cross. After baby is born, the interchanges cells stay in the mother’s body, leaving an imprint in her tissue, her bones, brain and skin and will stay there for years and even decades.
In this painting I want to impress, in particular, the physical and soulful connection between a woman and there baby – as the baby develops and grows, the exchange between the a woman and their baby is an astounding process of connection. When the baby is born, some physical aspects of the connection are lost, but with lifelong imprints left within the mother and baby, which provides a template for living, for growth and for healing.
"Personal Power"
The human thyroid - located in the front of your neck, the thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland and produces a hormone called thyroxine. It has an important job to do within your body - releasing and controlling thyroid hormones that control your metabolic rate and the transformation of food to energy. It plays a critical role in the maintenance of your heart, muscles and digestive function, brain development and bone maintenance.
In this painting, the butterflies surrounding the thyroid represent its physical shape and the significant functions that the thyroid performs, I hope, showcasing these in my interpretation. The flowers combine with the butterflies to resemble growth, nourishment and life. A form of selfcare and transformation.
"Genetics"
This painting is devoted to my sister Katja – depicting body tissue under the microscope, coloured with pigments to receive better visibility of cells. Our genes carry information that affects our health, our appearance, and even our personality.
There are two circles that illustrate the same body tissue, but it different states. The inner circle shows cancerous body cells of human breast tissue, and the outer circle shows non-cancerous body cells of human breast tissue.
Surrounding the inner circles is DNA painted in gold to represent energy feeding and supporting the body, and its fight against the intruders.
It is scientifically proven that we all have set genes, which are connected to the genes of our ancestors, however, sometimes even the rules of science can break, provide hope for living a healthy life, without restraint.
