Julia Charlott

What Defines Julia Charlott's Work

Julia Charlott is a Berlin-based artist whose jellyfish illustrations have earned her the title "Queen of Jellyfish." Working in watercolour and digital media, she captures the ethereal, translucent quality of deep-sea creatures — the way they move, glow, and trail through dark water. Her deep connection to the sea, nurtured during childhood visits to the coast, is visible in every piece: these are not scientific diagrams but atmospheric portraits of creatures that feel alive.

Make Me Feel Jellyfish and Blooming Soul Jellyfish show Charlott's signature approach — luminous, colour-saturated forms floating against deep backgrounds, rendered with a looseness that captures the organic movement of the creatures. Under the Surface Jellyfish explores darker, more atmospheric compositions, while Ethereal Beings pushes the subject toward abstraction, where the jellyfish form becomes a vehicle for pure colour and light. Midnight Party brings a more playful energy, with multiple creatures creating rhythm and pattern.

What makes the work distinctive is the balance between biological specificity and artistic freedom. Charlott's jellyfish are recognisable as jellyfish — the trailing tentacles, the dome-shaped bells, the translucent membranes — but they glow with colours and intensities that belong to art rather than documentation.

Choosing the Right Format

Fine art paper is the natural choice for Charlott's illustrations — the watercolour transparency, delicate colour gradations, and precise line work come through with full clarity on a smooth matte surface. The luminous quality of the jellyfish forms reads most accurately against the clean paper ground. Paper prints are available in A3, 50x70cm, 70x100cm, and A0, with oak, black, or walnut brown frames. Black frames suit the deep-sea atmosphere of the darker compositions; oak complements the warmer, more saturated pieces.

On canvas, the painterly quality of the watercolour work gains additional texture and warmth — the jellyfish forms take on a more dimensional, almost sculptural quality. Canvas prints come in 30x40cm, 50x70cm, and 70x100cm, with an optional floating frame.

Pairing Julia Charlott Prints

Two or three jellyfish prints in matching frames create one of the most striking themed walls available — the consistent subject matter and luminous colour palette hold the group together while each composition brings a different mood and colour energy. Make Me Feel Jellyfish alongside Blooming Soul Jellyfish alongside Ethereal Beings, for instance, moves from warm, saturated colour to more atmospheric abstraction.

Charlott's deep-sea subjects connect naturally to our animal collection and pair well with natural history prints from Ernst Haeckel, whose own jellyfish illustrations in Kunstformen der Natur provided some of the earliest artistic representations of these creatures. For a broader contemporary wall, explore our design and illustration collection or combine with Gigi Rosado, whose expressive illustration style shares a similar warmth and directness.

As a Berlin studio neighbour, Charlott's work sits naturally alongside other prints in our contemporary artist collection.

All prints are produced in our Berlin studio using archival pigment inks rated for 100+ years.