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 more than thirty years, painting has remained the foundation of his practice. His process is one of disciplined exploration, balancing intuition with careful revision as each work develops through successive layers and reworking. The resulting paintings record both the act of making and an ongoing search for visual equilibrium.

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 

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