Julie BraytonPaintings
Large abstract canvases, built in layers until the surface holds its own light.
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Paint laid down thickly, then opened back up to the light.
Julie Brayton paints large-scale abstractions on canvas — colour worked wet into wet, scraped back, and rebuilt until a passage of weather or water settles out of it.
She comes to the easel from twenty years inside high design, and it shows in the scale. These are paintings made for rooms: sized to a chimney breast, a stair landing, a long dining wall.
Every canvas here is an original and one of one. Works are sold directly from the studio.
In place
Made for the wall it ends up on.
A few of Julie's paintings at home — in private residences, a boutique dining room, and the studio they came from.
After graduating with degrees in interior design, art history and journalism, Julie entered the world of high design in 2012, working for the AD100 designers Michael S. Smith and Martyn Lawrence Bullard in Los Angeles.
She went on to run her own firm in Denver for six years before moving her practice to New York City — with projects spanning high-profile private clients, iconic boutique hotels and restaurants.
Inquiries
Interested in a piece, or in something made to size?
Write to the studio with the catalogue number, your room, or just the wall you're trying to solve. Commissions are taken a few at a time.