Julia Hallström Hjort (b. 1991, Lund) is a Swedish artist based in Malmö. With an academic background in medicine and psychology, she turned to painting as a distraction from chronic pain and art became a path to a calmer lifestyle. She explores a wide range of techniques, shifting between figurative, abstract and large-scale mural work. Characterised by a calm visual language and a preference for muted tones, her art draws inspiration from Nordic design and nature. For Julia, a painting can be powerful and charged with deeper meaning, but it can also simply exist as something that brings beauty, colour and joy to the space it inhabits.