Julian's Art Portfolio
Traditional art, unaided by computers or processes requiring any modern, specialized, or novel techniques.
Visual art [as traditional as apple pie.] In the mediums of: Watercolour, acrylic & oil based paints. Other's featuring pen, ink, pencil crayon, oil pastel, charcoal, and/or marker work, unless otherwise noted.
All works here brought forth, and subject to copyright which rests with the creator of the work: Julian Michal Zembrowski, a visual & musical artist, born, and residing in the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, more commonly known as: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Julian has been doing art his entire life, having been given instructions and techniques, beginner all the way to advanced, from his father Josef Zembrowski, himself a renowned Canadian painter, who at his height exhibited works in the International Exhibition of Art, the Biennale, 2001 in Florence, Italy. Now sadly not in this world anymore, taken by cancer from a long lifetime of smoking, which he never regretted. Julian's mother too is sadly not shining a light in this world, having been stabbed to death in her SRO in the East Side of Vancouver by her neighbour of two years. Julian has a full-blood brother, Dominik on which he relies on for healing and the joyous gift which is family. 'Jewels' or 'J' (as known to his friends) is single, doesn't plan on having kids and enjoys his time in Beautiful vancouver, making new pieces of art, and composing and producing new works under the recording artist name Dead Hippie Squadron. His musical pieces may be found here: On SoundCloud. All works are free to stream and download.
'J' believes in an economy that counts people and education of the self first and foremost, before profits and enrichment from the securing and scarcity-minding promulgating of copyrighted intellectual and artistic works for individual/corporate gain and greed. Thus tries himself to do his best to walk the talk and make his music free of charge, to both stream and download, and should you wish to use his art and/or music for any purpose he will undoubtably respond with a yes, should your intent not be to commercialize his work, and if you contact him and ask his permission first.
While he does believe we should share first and above all else, Julian is also not ignorant to the fact values and virtues don't make good eating, and is nearly starved to death off of eating his moral code, as it doesn't reflect the daily intake requirements of the weird semi-human creature he indeed is. Moral code, for all its worth, lacks some of the nutritional vitamins and minerals as well as essential amino acids J requires to keep producing a heartbeat, let alone works of musical or artistic quality he wishes to express. Instead of charging a set price, Julian wishes you donate if and what you are able to, should you wish to contribute to his message, give thanks for the art and music he freely gives you, and say thank you for his hard and unending efforts at making a more colourful, loud, joyous and inspiring world around us. Julian thanks you greatly for your contribution, as it the sole way which he makes a living. Donations may be made to his paypal paypal.me/deadhippiesquadron for quicker methods please email him for banking info.
Should you wish to contact Julian for purposes of collaboration, donation, conversation, scholarly pursuits, educational need, teaching assistance of, musical opportunities or requisitions, commissioning of art and or music, information regarding works, or any opportunity which he may find challenging, rewarding, inspiring, or insightful and purposeful please email his personal email account: [JulianZembrowski] [at] Hotmail {dot} [com]
"Venus seated upon a lotus flower serving LSD" June 2018, Markers, pen and ink, and pencil crayons on very large paper. Sold to a local Vancouverite a day after its creation for an undisclosed agreed-upon sum.
Words from the artist: "This is one of my most recent pieces and I'm very thankful Amanda, a good friend of mine, took a picture of this one before I sold it. Shoutout to Amanda! Thanks for all you do girl! You rock! ...looking forward to continuing the same 'dizzying, rapid fire, colour ejaculation, took-too-much-acid-style' as my current artist's mood. I feel inspired by lush colours, bursting from the page, so vibrant you can almost taste them with the tongue off of the page. I'm very inspired and pleased with the response I've been getting on my current styles and attempts at creating something moving, that inspires the viewer with glee and awe. I live for art. Thanks for sharing in my life's journey, and calling (equal to my music of course... Note: Dead Hippie Squadron) - Julian Zembrowski
"Adam, a man" 2010 - Acrylic on canvas, whereabouts unknown
"She-Goat in gold" 2016, Watercolour, ink pens, markers, pencil crayons, acrylic and gold. One of a kind, current whereabouts unknown
"Wolf Watercolour Study and Imaginitive Rendering I" 2015, Watercolour on Paper. A friends collection of the artist's works.
"Wolf Watercolour Study and Imaginitive Rendering II" Watercolour on paper, 2015, belonging to a friend of the artist.
Words from the painter: "I fucking love this piece! My friends get all my good ones... ;3" - Julian Z
"Dream of a Swamp at Sun-set/rise" Watercolour painting, created 2012
Words from the painter: "I very much like how this one turned out. It seems to juxtapose and capture my two different sides at the time, landscapes and abstract, and assembles the two far different styles and fuses them into a quite memorable and succinct admixture." - Julian Z
Whereabouts Unknown
"Radiating Shepherd" 2012 - Acrylic on canvas, Whereabouts Unknown
2018 - "The Seer" - Acrylic on Mirror Glass
Words from the painter: "This was an attempt at doing what my father was known to occasionally do, and impressed on me from a young child, he would paint fabulous portraits using mirrors. The lighting and colour effects they produce is phenomenal. On this one the eyes are unpainted and so when looking at it you see yourself, from far back the effect is very chilling, as it bounces the light of the room its situated in, its very much like the painting is looking at you, and you feel it. Its with my old roommates, they adore it, but find it kinda frightening at the same time. I guess thats the truth of human experience in art, when what your experiencing is not a craftily packedged happiness, made for the consumer in mind, but instead a warped collection of feelings, substitutes, impressions and approximations. Attempting to show the viewer something in hurried time, with only so much communicable material available, with too little time, using far less words and content than one would like. As less tends to be more, the effect is so felt when viewing this painting face to face. It very much looks into you." - Julian Z
2015, Watercolour on watercolour purpose-designed paper. "Jesus watching over Venice" Whereabouts Unknown
Words from the painter: "I made this to try and express the very firey and scorching pain that I was feeling intensely during my father's death. It felt so ominous, a tragedy, like a deathwound to my own self in his passing, like a big part of me died with him. This was one of my only and first attempts at the subject matter of Jesus, and felt the moment was suitable to use the imagery of the Lord. Such pain, this painting has its place, but now much later i obviously have different feelings, less painful thankfully. But death puts you through a series of emotions and thoughts and to grieve is to go through them, thoughtfully and with patience. That's how you learn to heal." - Julian Z
2015 - Oil on Canvas, "Josef's Ascent"
Words from the painter on the subject:
"The night after my father passed I had a dream of a comet flying across the night's sky, illuminating a lake below so beautifully. I felt I was given the dream as a way of letting me know my father still shines bright, and has gone fast and far on a new journey. That dream comforted me and I tried my best to capture the feeling and colours I experienced. To this day the whole thing reminds me that death is not an end, but only a frame in a continuing movie. Capturing but one part of an ongoing and living story." - Julian Z
"??? & D" - Acrylic on Canvas, painted 2012, whereabouts unknown
"Untitled" Watercolour on large watercolour-specific paper. 2012 Apologize for the poor detail in the picture, it was taken before HD became relatively inexpensive more toward our current year. Sadly this painting has been lost and its current whereabouts are unknown.
"Untitled" 2010 - Acrylic on canvas, current whereabouts unknown
"Burrard Bridge at Night" 2010 - Acrylic on canvas, a friends private collection
Black Pen, 2013 sold to a friend.
"Dober" 2010 - Acrylic on canvas
Unfortunately I don't have a larger or more detailed picture of this work. This image was taken before I sold it hastily the day after completing it. It took three days with a few dead pens and markers to show for the effort. It's an image depicting Gastown in Vancouver, B.C. Created in June 2018, pen and ink. Black marker, fine pens, and calligraphic pen.
Pen and markers, June 2018, Sold to a local merchant the day after its creation.
