Bio

Julian Calabrese is a British-Italian visual artist whose practice centers on painting and material-based installations. With a professional background spanning illustration, film and theatre design, conceptual design, and photography, his work reflects a strong sensitivity to space, light, and visual structure.

For over thirty years painting has remained the foundation of his creative life. The process functions as a space of disciplined discovery, where intuition and form are brought into balance through repeated reworking of the surface. Each work becomes both a meditation and a record of process, seeking a point of harmony between chaos and clarity.

Working from Gozo, Calabrese’s landscape paintings draw from extended observation of the island’s geology, light, and environmental contrasts. These works explore the meeting point between rural character and contemporary development, distilling place through rhythm, contrast, and spatial tension.

Alongside the landscape work, he develops abstract paintings and material installations in which forms and structures emerge through process rather than predetermined design.

Calabrese lives and works in Gozo, Malta.

Selfy

2006 charcoal, acrylic paint on wooden shutter 

 me, born in 73