ARTWORK DETAILS
"The legend"
Acrylic on stretched canvas
50 × 70 cm · 2026
ORIGINAL & LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
Julia Rybalko
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I don't paint moods.
I engineer them.
Acrylic on stretched canvas.
Bold geometry, flat color, black contour.
Est. 2025 · Lisbon
I don't paint moods. i engineer them.
THE COLLECTION
Built to be seen.
Not matched.
Hard edge, flat color, black contour thick enough to see from across the room. Every piece is acrylic on stretched canvas, hand-signed and dated on the back.
ON THE WALL
One painting.
The whole room shifts.
Most art on most walls is wallpaper. It softens the room, stays polite, and asks for nothing. I don’t make that. My work pulls the room toward it — becomes the thing the eye goes to first and keeps coming back to.
One painting is enough. No matching frames, no gallery wall of five more pieces to hold it up. If the room is quiet, it gives it a center. If the room is loud, it takes over. Either way — the wall stops being a wall and starts being a decision.
Before the Paint
Photography
“I don’t paint from memory. I paint from sight. Every shot is a hunt for the geometry that eventually hits my canvas.”
Before any paint hits the canvas, I look for the frame in the real world — landscapes, water, stone, light. I don’t copy the photo. I strip it down to its geometry until there’s nothing left but the structure worth painting. The photography isn’t a portfolio. It’s the source file.
about the artist
Julia Rybalko
I’m Julia Rybalko. I paint in Lisbon, originally from Ukraine. I came to painting from an engineering education — no art school, no thesis about deconstructing the gaze. I learned to draw by drafting, and I kept the habits: clean lines, defined shapes, nothing that blurs.
My work is acrylic on stretched canvas. Flat color, hard edge, thick black contour — three rules I don’t break. I don’t blend. I don’t shade. I reduce each composition to its essential geometry before the first drop of paint hits the canvas.
I make originals first. Every painting begins as a one-of-one original, signed and dated on the back. Selected works may then become part of my Limited Fine Art Editions — carefully produced, hand-signed and individually numbered in strictly limited quantities.
The first release is “THE LEGEND” — limited to 50 pieces.
The originals are singular. The editions are limited. Either way, they are made to be seen.
Flat Color
No blending.
No gradient.
Hard Edge
Every boundary is
a decision.
Black Contour
The line that holds it all together
Commission a Piece
Bring your
vision to life
If you have a wall in mind — a size, a room, a palette you’re building around — write to me directly. Commissions take 4–6 weeks from brief to shipping. I don’t take on work that fights the style you see on this site, but within it, we can agree on format, color weight, and subject.
I’m open to working with collectors, designers, and creative projects.