Yula Bulanov
Yula Bulanov, known artistically as Ulien, is a multidisciplinary artist based in Israel whose practice centers around painting as a meditative and intuitive medium. Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, she explores color, gesture, and symbolic form as pathways into inner landscapes and states of quiet transformation.
Yula holds a B.A. in Screen-Based Arts from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem (2010). Her studies in animation and visual storytelling continue to inform the fluidity and depth of her painted worlds. She further expanded her artistic research through workshops with visionary artist Luis Tamani and by participating in the Visionary Art Academy Summer Seminar in 2023, a three-week intensive program in the Torri Superiore ecovillage in Italy, where she deepened her understanding of sacred symbolism and the contemplative dimensions of image-making.
In addition to her studio work, Yula is an active member of Hands and Vision, an Israeli artist collective dedicated to bringing art to the forefront as a lived, communal, and performative experience. Through the collective’s live painting, public events, and audience engagement, she explores the transformative and healing potential of art as a bridge between inner and outer worlds.
Her work reflects a search for quiet luminosity—a movement toward harmony within, and a way of meeting the world through color, stillness, and the subtle language of the soul.
Artist Statement
My paintings emerge from an intuitive dialogue between inner and outer worlds, guided by the cyclical movement of expansion and retreat, light and shadow, stillness and renewal. Working with acrylic on canvas, I explore how color, gesture, and layered transparency can hold opposing forces in balance—the quiet pull inward and the subtle glow rising from within. The process is contemplative and rhythmic, shaped by ritual and reflection, tracing the gradual shifts through which transformation becomes visible.
At the heart of my practice is the meeting point between polarities—a space where contrasts merge into a unified presence rather than cancel each other out. Through geometry and organic forms, I follow this movement toward wholeness, where cycles feel less like linear time and more like a continuous unfolding. My intention is to offer a moment of stillness and gentle illumination, inviting the viewer to sense the place where inner and outer, darkness and light, separation and unity all converge.
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