Komorebi is a series of contemporary, semi-abstract oil paintings by Julia Brown, inspired by the shifting shapes of light viewed through trees—the quiet flicker of sun, leaf-shadow, and movement that makes you stop mid-walk and just…breathe.

These paintings begin with process: solvent, pigment, pours and splatters, then a slow build of opaque paint, glazes and scraped-back layers. There's an interest in what oil paint does—its material quirks, its chemistry, how colours play against each other, and the way a surface can hold both the translucency and weight of the paint.

The result isn’t a “landscape” in the traditional sense, but a different viewpoint: a felt experience of being amongst trees, rather than a literal depiction.

The Japanese word Komorebi  木漏れ日 (ko-mo-reh-bee) is often translated as “sunlight filtering through trees”, but it carries more than this one-dimensional, neat definition. It’s the whole atmosphere: the hypnotic dance of honeyed light and shadow through moving leaves, the sense of time slowing, the scent of moss and leaf mould, the soft susurration overhead.

For collectors who want their home to feel calmer, deeper, and more alive with emotional resonance, these paintings are made to live with—changing through the day as the light shifts, quietly giving something back.

If you would like to view original artworks before purchasing, please contact me to arrange a viewing at the studio.