Julie Baugh-Jenkins

I am a contemporary Welsh artist born and living in the Brecon beacons, Wales. My landscapes are very much inspired by the Welsh landscape I grew up in and the nature that surrounds me. I have a deeply-rooted ancestral connection to this place being one of six generations to settle in this landscape.

The ancestral footsteps I retrace hold the remains of an industrial past which form its landscape today. The existence of these paths fades and become impassable as nature takes over but memories are rooted and preserved. Culture, tradition and place are connected by these pathways and when I walk I absorb the sensation, the feeling of belonging to a place.

My work embraces the rich and dramatic landscapes that I explore. It is the sensation of the landscape I paint, a way of expression. My paintings display an interwoven connection with human emotion and nature. Retracing memories inform my application of my work, building up a surface that mirrors and echoes my responses to nature.

My paintings are about the remembering of moments, the stories that echoes the land and my rooted connection to a place. They re-enact the idea of what the landscape is and has always been.

They are about the remembering of a ‘Place’.

As seen in 'T...

2023 MA Fine Art Falmouth.
2012 PGCE Cert in Further Education.
2007-2011 BA (Hons) Fine Art Hereford College of Arts.

2024 The Artshop & Chapel Abergavenny.
2024 Oriel Cric Gallery Crickhowell.
2024 Crickhowell Open Studios.
2023 Crickhowell Open Studios.
2021 ArtDrop21 Exhibition at Canfas Gallery.
2013 Group Exhibition -Abstract Landscapes- Art360 Hereford.
2012 Group Exhibition- Clydach Gorge Landscapes- Brynmawr Arts & Craft Society.
2011 Degree Exhibition: Wales is no arcadia. It is a land full of echoes—Hereford College of Arts.
2011- Present. Saatchi Art online gallery.
2010 Solo Exhibition - Welsh landscape Paintings - Art360 Hereford.
2010 Undergraduate - Retraces -The Cider Museum, Hereford College of Arts.
2010 Hereford Art in the Woods, Painting Workshop.
2010 Longtown Primary School, Drawing Workshop.
2010 The Sydney Nolan Trust, Presteigne, Powys, Sculpture Workshop.
2009 Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbran, Textiles workshop.
2009 Progress Works Exhibition - Retracing a Journey - The Gallery at Stratford-Upon.
2009 Group Exhibition- Clydach Gorge Landscapes - Brynmawr Arts & Craft Society.
2007 Group Exhibition- Portraits - Brynmawr Arts & Craft Society.