• Cover of The Fire That Drank The Shadow – Deluxe Edition by Julia Soboleva, showing two nude figures embracing on concrete steps against a dark cloth background.
  • Back Cover of The Fire That Drank The Shadow – Deluxe Edition by Julia Soboleva.
  • Artwork from The Fire That Drank The Shadow by Julia Soboleva, depicting two pale, mask-like figures in muted tones, one with a wide open mouth and the other with a rounded nose.
  • Artwork from The Fire That Drank The Shadow by Julia Soboleva, an atmospheric landscape with a small figure carrying a light along a winding road under a green, clouded sky.
  • Open spread from The Fire That Drank The Shadow by Julia Soboleva titled “Face to Face,” featuring a collage of small surreal images including shadowy figures and a scene with a group surrounding a central figure.
  • Open spread from The Fire That Drank The Shadow by Julia Soboleva with multiple small images, including a ghostly cat beside a candle, a dark figure with glowing eyes next to a pale owl-like figure, and a small flame-shaped figure.
  • Artwork from The Fire That Drank The Shadow by Julia Soboleva showing a portrait with a large moth positioned over the face, its eyes and body glowing in warm tones.
  • Artwork from The Fire That Drank The Shadow by Julia Soboleva of a white house on fire, with a small black cat in the foreground and a seated figure holding a small light to the side.
  • Full spread from The Fire That Drank The Shadow by Julia Soboleva showing a forest scene populated by colorful figures and animals, floating skull-like faces, and stylized birds around a bright central light.
  • Artwork from The Fire That Drank The Shadow by Julia Soboleva showing a bar scene with handwritten text, a small pink figure by a bottle and glasses, and a taller figure in a dark coat.
  • Artwork from The Fire That Drank The Shadow by Julia Soboleva showing two pale figures with dark eyes; one smokes a cigarette and wears a top with “PEACE IS POWER” text and a large face motif with glowing eyes.
  • Artwork from The Fire That Drank The Shadow by Julia Soboleva showing a dark, winding river landscape filled with repeated black creatures with pink heads, small fires, and scattered figures.
  • Artwork from The Fire That Drank The Shadow by Julia Soboleva depicting a long-legged dark beast with a striped green eye, with small shadowy figures in the background.
  • Artwork from The Fire That Drank The Shadow by Julia Soboleva showing a pale face-like form pierced with many smoking matchsticks against a dark background.
  • Artwork from The Fire That Drank The Shadow by Julia Soboleva with the handwritten phrase “POSSIBILITIES AND PROBABILITIES” above seated, mask-like figures and a wisp of smoke rising from a small flame.
  • Artwork from The Fire That Drank The Shadow by Julia Soboleva featuring a circular portrait with a dark band covering the eyes.
  • Spine close-up of The Fire That Drank The Shadow – Deluxe Edition by Julia Soboleva.
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The Fire That Drank The Shadow – Deluxe Edition

The Fire That Drank The Shadow – Deluxe Edition (Julia Soboleva)

Julia Soboleva
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The Fire That Drank The Shadow by Julia Soboleva in Deluxe Edition expands the book with 90 exclusive pages and premium clothbound production from The Mansion Press.

  • Title: The Fire That Drank The Shadow – The Art of Julia Soboleva
  • Artist: Julia Soboleva
  • Publisher: The Mansion Press
  • Edition: Deluxe Edition (90 exclusive pages, variant cover)
  • Total pages: 408 (318 + 90 exclusive pages)
  • Format: 19 × 22 cm
  • Binding: Hardcover; cloth binding with hot gold stamping; ribbon bookmark
  • Paper: Munken 150 g
  • ISBN: 9782492646683

About The Fire That Drank The Shadow – Deluxe Edition

The Fire That Drank The Shadow returns to Julia Soboleva’s uneasy zone between tenderness and erosion. This Deluxe Edition adds 90 exclusive pages and a variant cover, extending the project into a denser, more immersive artbook.

Working with painting, collage, and found photographic imagery, Julia Soboleva constructs scenes that read like incomplete memories. Faces appear as fragments. Bodies shift into masks. Humour surfaces, then collapses into something colder. The tone stays controlled, but never stable.

Across these 408 pages, The Fire That Drank The Shadow moves through family traces, taboo details, and the pressure of inherited stories. The imagery suggests a post-Soviet backdrop without turning into documentary. Instead, Soboleva uses dark art methods to stage quiet tension: innocence next to contamination, softness next to threat.

This edition is designed as an object, not just a container. The cloth binding and hot gold stamping signal a collectible production, while the Munken paper supports subtle colour and texture. For readers who follow contemporary mixed-media and narrative illustration, the Deluxe Edition is the most complete version available.

About Julia Soboleva

Julia Soboleva is a Latvia-born, UK-based mixed-media artist. She works by painting and collaging on found photographic imagery. Her practice reflects on madness and reality, building scenes with ominous tones and restrained absurd humour.

Soboleva has explored family, taboo, and transgenerational trauma in her work. She earned an MA in Illustration at Manchester School of Art (2018). She also works as an educator and freelance designer.

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