The Art of Komorebi

I make semi-abstract paintings rooted in material process, alive with texture, shifting seasons, and light filtering through trees.

Statement uplifting abstract landscape painting with layered sunlight through autumn leaves, original oil on canvas by UK artist Julia Brown
Statement uplifting abstract landscape painting with layered sunlight through autumn leaves, original oil on canvas by UK artist Julia Brown

The Art of Komorebi

I make semi-abstract paintings rooted in material process, alive with texture, shifting seasons, and light filtering through trees.

A calming abstract textured oil painting of golden green autumn leaves by Julia Brown in an eclectic period dining room

The Art of Komorebi

I make semi-abstract paintings rooted in material process, alive with texture, shifting seasons, and light filtering through trees.

Komorebi 木漏れ日

Often translated as “sunlight filtering through trees”, Komorebi 木漏れ日 is about so much more than that neat, one-dimensional definition. It’s the whole atmosphere: the hypnotic dance of light and shadow through moving leaves. It's the way the air shifts under a canopy, the scent of moss and leaf mould, and the soft susurration overhead.

Komorebi is a collection of work inspired by those flickering shapes of light seen through trees throughout the seasons—paintings that feel like stepping into shade on a warm day, where the noise drops away, time slows, and you can breathe a little deeper.

About the Artist

In the Studio with Julia Brown

"My work is shaped by the sensory experience of being in the natural world—the feeling of wind on skin, sunlight flickering through trees, the sound of rustling leaves—that expansive, elemental power of the outdoors."

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