Julyan Davis has painted the American South for over thirty years. He has been represented by Blue Spiral 1 since 1997. Davis began as a landscape painter, with an emphasis on recording the vanishing South. From roadside folk art to long-demolished motels, from wrestlers at the state fair to the interiors of boarded up antebellum mansions, he has captured hundreds of places now lost to neglect or gentrification. In the past decade, he has populated his evocative canvases with narratives from Southern ballads and folklore that tour museums of the region in collaboration with musicians, storytellers and historians. Davis’s debut novel ‘A History of Saints’ (set in Asheville during the great recession of 2008) won the Foreward Indies 2021 gold award for humor and is currently a semifinalist for the 2022 Thurber Prize. Davis received a BA degree in painting and printmaking from the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. He has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and the United States. Davis’ paintings are in the permanent collections of the Asheville Museum of Art, Gibbes Museum of Art (SC), Greenville Museum of Art (SC), Morris Museum (GA), and the North Carolina Governor’s mansion and Western residence. Julyan currently works from his studio in North Carolina.