• Cover of The Fire That Drank The Shadow: The Art of Julia Soboleva, showing three seated figures with flame-like heads on a white background.
  • Back cover of The Fire That Drank The Shadow: The Art of Julia Soboleva, showing a moth man on a white background.
  • 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.
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The Fire That Drank The Shadow - The Art of Julia Soboleva

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The Fire That Drank The Shadow is a 318-page hardcover Julia Soboleva artbook from The Mansion Press, printed on Munken 150 g paper.

  • Hardcover
  • 318 pages
  • 19 × 22 cm
  • Munken paper, 150 g
  • ISBN 9782492646683
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About the Book

The Fire That Drank The Shadow Julia Soboleva — artbook overview

The Fire That Drank The Shadow is a large-format Julia Soboleva book published by The Mansion Press. Across 318 pages, the work is built through collage and painting on found photography, assembled as a sequence of uneasy, self-contained scenes.

The book stays on the thin boundary between beauty and decay, where memory becomes material: faces, family fragments, and post-Soviet echoes recur without being explained. The tone is controlled rather than theatrical, and the pacing rewards slow viewing.

Edition details

  • Publisher: The Mansion Press
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Length: 318 pages
  • Size: 19 × 22 cm
  • Paper: Munken 150 g
  • ISBN: 9782492646683
  • Condition: New

About the Author

Julia Soboleva

Julia Soboleva is a Latvia-born, UK-based mixed-media artist. Her process combines painting and collage on found photographic imagery, building scenes that function like fragments of narrative rather than illustrations of a single story.

Her work returns to themes of madness and reality, family, taboo, and transgenerational trauma, often cut with a dry, absurd humour. She completed an MA in Illustration at Manchester School of Art (2018) and works as an educator and freelance designer.

  • Latvia-born, UK-based
  • Mixed media: painting + collage on found photography
  • MA Illustration, Manchester School of Art (2018)

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