Julia Nauroth

Artist Statement

Julia Nauroth is a Richmond Based artist whos work primarily focuses on the simplistic beauty of the natural world and the horror of man-made artificial structures. When they aren’t painting, they are either reading and writing about the development of AI and what that means for the art world or going out on hikes to experience the variety of landscapes that are out there.

Julia graduated with a BFA in Painting & Printmaking and a BFA in Communication Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University in December of 2023.

They hope that one day they will become a curator of their own gallery and encourage the joining of fine art and commercial/digital art with the development of technology.

Landscape Artist

While I work with a variety of different themes and media, my subject matter usually stays the same: Landscapes. I enjoy painting all the different landscapes I have seen and experienced from the natural world to the concrete jungle. When anybody asks what I do, I always say I’m a landscape painter.

  • I work primarily with gouache, acrylic, and oils often interchangeably. But occasionally I work with mixed media and everything I can find at the hardware store! I have been known to work with CDs, caulk, PVC, LEDs etc. I also Find uses for things others have discarded such as old wood, panels, and metal.

  • When I first started painting, I was interested in American farms and food and the beauty of food. After attending VCU and experiencing the after effects of covid, I shifted more to horror. At first it was just an interest of seeing analog styled videos and playing pixilated horror games but quickly changed when I moved to a city. My inspirations that I always look to is Edward Hopper, liminal spaces and analog horror. Their are so many amazing creators in this area and I love seeing and working in a community that experiences the same things.

  • I have been asked many times “if these places and things make you scared why experience them?” I think that’s the whole point of horror in real life; its not like a movie where these characters and fake envrionment’s that make you scared but rather experiencing what I consider is real life horror, a real life experience that is happening to me. I go back because of my curiosity and for the feeling of being scared. It reminds me that I am alive (not for the sake of ‘adrenaline’ or putting myself in dangerous situations which I try to avoid), a full being with a range of emotions and I can only truly appreciate the good when I have felt the bad and vice versa.