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Julia Burns

Wolverhampton , west midlands, United Kingdom

Julia’s work explores the physicality of painting, the use of colour to give an illusion of space wi...

About the artist

Julia Burns

Joined In 2010

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About the artist

Julia Burns

Joined In 2010

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(28 Followers)

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EDUCATION
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Julia’s work explores the physicality of painting, the use of colour to give an illusion of space within the work and the application of mark almost as a ‘beat’ within the pieces.

The paintings explore the poetry of lost things.
They describe encounters within the world and the impossibility of assimilation or permanence.
They are concerned with memory, the fleeting glimpse, traces and journeys not taken and elegiac shifts of balance.
The work sometimes alluding to interiors or landscapes but is essentially about colour relationships and improvisations, the process of the painting revealing the image through time.

“I am interested in creating paintings which act like soundtracks to a particular time.”

The paintings are acrylic paint and crayon on paper worked in many thin layers to achieve the richness of colour. The crisply masked edge ‘contains’ the sometimes-elusive imagery and the addition of crayon drawing adds a broken textural line.

Julia has been a practicing artist since 1983.
She has exhibited widely in Britain and Europe.
She is a member of the Wolverhampton Society of Artists.

BA(Hons). Fine art degree from St Martins School of Art ,London, UK. Post Graduate Certificate of Education from the University of Brighton,UK.
Exhibiting since 1985 In Uk and Europe ( see CV on website) Teaching Fine Art in Art Schools since 1992.

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