I paint to get lost. It’s the moment of flow—where shapes, shadows and textures start to whisper—that keeps pulling me back to the canvas. In those early layers of acrylic, faces, figures, and strange little creatures begin to reveal themselves. I never go looking for...
Julia Preston | Featured Artist Summer 2025
Julia Preston | Featured Artist Summer 2025

Julia Preston
Artist
Based in Bolton, Julia Preston is the artist behind SulikoSoul — a creative practice rooted in bold colour, layered texture, and emotional connection to place. Working across acrylic painting, mixed media, pyrography, and anodised aluminium jewellery, her work explores the seasons, the landscape, and cultural threads that tie us to memory and meaning.
Inspired by the moors of Lancashire and her travels through the Caucasus and beyond, Julia’s art often reflects a meeting point between wild terrain and intimate stillness. Her vibrant canvases shift between abstract and figurative, often echoing the mood of the land and the rhythm of nature. Whether painting a windswept hillside or crafting a statement piece of jewellery, she invites viewers to pause, feel, and reflect.
Julia works from Falcon Mill Studios and regularly exhibits across the North of England. Her pieces are available online and through selected galleries and independent shops.

Autumn Chill
is a richly textured, emotionally resonant acrylic painting that captures a moment of seasonal transformation in the landscape.
The piece draws you in with its layered brushwork and intentional colour shifts: vivid russets and golds in the foreground, whispering of turning bracken and crisp undergrowth, give way to cooler blues and silvery greys that build the distant hills and expansive sky. Her use of bold colour contrasts with subtle gradations, especially where land meets water, creates a rhythm that is both grounded and atmospheric. The whole image feels like it’s breathing, you can almost hear the wind whirling across the moor.
The textural depth suggests a strong physical engagement with the canvas kind of help feel the chill, but also the glow of the low autumn sun. It evokes reflection, transition, and that wistful stillness just before winter takes hold.
Artwork Title: Autumn Chill
Artist: Julia Preston
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Board
Size: 32cm x 32cm
Price: £240
Presentation: Framed, ready to hang

Lake View Storm
An electric expression of the land in flux, “Lakes View – Storm” crackles with the tension and magic of an approaching winter dusk.
The vibrant cobalt and ultramarine skies feel charged, not just with storm energy, but with the shimmer of something unearthly.
There’s a hint of the aurora borealis warming up backstage, ready to dance once the light drops low enough.
Sweeps of acidic green carve through the hills like veins of light, giving form to an otherwise abstracted landscape.
Julia’s confident, gestural marks lend drama and dynamism to the scene. You can feel the wind rising, the air thinning, the quiet before something spectacular erupts in the sky.
Artwork Title: Lake View Storm
Artist: Julia Preston
Medium: Acrylic on Paper
Size: 48cm x 48cm
Price: £320
Presentation: Framed, ready to hang
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