Julia Stankova was born in 1954 in Bulgaria. After twelve years of working as a mining engineer she went on as a painter. In 2000 she obtained a second degree in theology (MT). In her artistic work she gradually developed her own technique of painting on wood based on the pictorial techniques of the Byzantine masters. During the last twenty years she had thirty individual exhibitions in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece, the Netherlands and France. She publishes regularly (essays, poetry, theological analyses, articles on art) in Bulgarian literary newspapers and magazines.