Julie Navarro’s art is spectral in two senses: it disperses pigments, captures shifting light, and remains on the lookout for ghostly presences, shadows, and imprints.” Mariane de Douhet, art critic, 2023
Julie Navarro explores our perception of the landscape. She captures its subtle variations in light, color, and rhythm—as if they were delicate signs—which she then reimagines on dance tulle. His dynamic works, described by French art critic Loïc Le Gall as “screen-paintings,” arise from the meticulous layering of painted, stretched canvases. The pictorial medium becomes a vibrating surface that reveals the hidden energies of the Limousin peat bog landscape, which the artist holds dear. Thus, continuing her reinterpretation of Impressionism, Julie Navarro explores the play of light on the water’s surface in a misty landscape. Her pictorial language physically engages her in a dialogue with her immediate surroundings, where the reflections on the water and those of the sky merge, and where the colors of the marshes—iridescent violet, mauve, and turquoise blue—dissolve into an almost abstract whole.
This series opens up a new visual journey in which the surfaces and depths of the painted landscapes gently echo one another. Julie Navarro’s paintings evoke calm and serenity with their evanescent, iridescent hues that gently touch the retina and the heart.
At Art Paris 2026, this work was selected for the BNP Paribas prize and Julie Navarro was one of the 20 artists in the thematic parcours imagined by guest exhibition curator Loïc Le Gall entitled “Babel – Art and Language in France” alongside Laure Prouvost, Fabrice Hyber, Juliette Agnel or Joël Andrianomearisoa.