Painter

www.juliesharmanpainting.com

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Born in 1955 in Lincolnshire, if you had asked Julie’s primary school classmates what they predicted she would do when she grew up, the answer would have been “an artist”. With the encouragement of her teachers, she was allowed to paint while they were forced to slave over their sums.

Several years after school, and A level art, Julie attended a Saturday painting course at Goldsmiths’ for two years under the tutorship of Keith Walker in the early 80s and discovered oils and painting directly from nature.

Studying medicine and bringing up children meant an artistic hiatus of over 20 years until she enrolled on the Chelsea Art College “Friday Open Studio” which rekindled the artistic juices. Julie has attended the Friday Open Studios for over 10 years under the tutorship of professional artists: Peter Fleming and latterly Enver Gursev.

During this time, Julie has developed from simple landscapes using primary colours to more nuanced works still using bold colours but with more attention to the quality of the mark making.

Julie prefers the rich, sensuous quality of oils to other media, and is drawn to unsentimental landscapes evocative of Lincolnshire and cityscapes – representing alienation and familiarity simultaneously.

Having recently discovered portraiture, Julie enjoys the challenge that this demands, where a tiny brush stroke out of place can ruin the results.

Now having the good fortune to be able participate in the Red Herring artistic community Julie intends to explore images of the unique Sussex landscape in more depth and to learn from other artists in the collective.