Julie Caves, Cooking with Gas, 2025, oil on panel, 15x15cm

Julie Caves is a Margate-based artist who has an MA from Camberwell College of Art, studied sculpture on an Erasmus term in Valencia, Spain, completed the 2-year Turps Studio Painting Programme alternative MA in 2019 and has a certificate in Independent Curating from Central St Martins. She regularly exhibits throughout the UK and has an upcoming solo show in The Cupboard at Liminal Gallery in 2026.

Julie is interested in looking at light and colour in the things we live with and the spaces we live in. She sometimes approaches the subject directly and paints roomscapes and objects from observation; at other times she focuses on the colour relationships and light separated from the subject, letting the painting develop intuitively, and those works are usually read as abstract paintings. She likes switching back and forth between these two ways of working.