Yulia Brodskaya is a Russian artist and illustrator known for painting with paper. 

Pioneering contemporary paper quilling, she uses thick, coloured paper to compose stunningly detailed 3d portraits. And her work is owned by the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Hermés, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Paramount Pictures, Country Music Association, The New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, New York Observer, and Issey Miyake. 

She also designed the official poster for the 2015 Wimbledon Championships, designed a Google Chrome theme, created a Forever stamp design for the United States Postal Service in 2016 and Christmas 2017 stamps for New Zealand Post. In 2019, she was named a “Breakthrough Star” by Creative Review and featured among other leading UK-based artists in the BBC programme Making Art Work: First Idea to Final Piece.

Highlights:

• 2:32 Growing up in Moscow in the 1980s
• 8:27 Learning to see the world with an artist’s eye
• 10:12 Picking up a love of typography
• 12:43 Discovering a love of paper art
• 16:59 Creating the Christmas cover for the G2 supplement of the Guardian
• 19:27 What “paper quilling” is
• 21:54 Being protective of her own style
• 23:40 The process of creating her work
• 27:19 When she knows a piece of work is complete
• 30:18 Creating portraits of old folks
• 39:20 Publishing a book
• 41:52 Creating her own mobile app
• 44:16 Creating her first NFT

📍Show notes: www.sothisismywhy.com/54 

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