SLWA Showcase

Barge 60x60cms, oil on canvas, 2008

Artist statement:
Julia’s paintings are rooted in the tradition of landscape painting and are emotional responses to the subject matter of change and how we hold it in our memory. There in the vast filing cabinet of recollections, details of place and event are store under many headings. These experiences are revealed and reconstructed from the atmospheric impressions of colour, weather, and light and shade. It is like the moment on a train when the viewer and viewed are joined together in the stillness of the gaze in an infinately quiet moment. The paintings are thick, gestural oil worked quickly onto canvas or board and are inspired by amongst others, Turner and Constable. They are taken from a muted palette with a slightly melancholic, dreamlike quality.

Genre:
2D: Painting

Contact:
beckerburnett[at]hotmail.com  – please replace [at] with @

CV:
I live and work in East Dulwich and trained as a painter at Kingston and graduated in 1980. I have since worked as a lecturer on foundation and degree courses. More recently I have been working as an art teacher for workshops at Sydenham High School and also work with a group of local women called the Skip Sisters on recycling projects.
I exhibit my paintings regularly and exhibitions include Wills Art Warehouse, The Pumphouse,Walton Contemporary Art, Greewich Theatre Gallery, The Tate Browser, Dulwich Picture Gallery group show,Southwark Playhouse, Quantum Contemporary Art and The Affordable Art Fair. I currently show work at Webbs Road Fine Art in Clapham, Alan Kluckow Fine Art in Sunningdale and The Rowley Gallery in Kensington.

2008 Exhibitions:
I currently show work at The Rowley Gallery, Kensington and Alan Kluckow Fine Art in Sunningdale and took part in the Battersea Contemporary Art Fair in May.

Further examples of work:

Ochre skies 16x17cms, oil on board, 2007

Waterside 36x24cms oil on paper, 2008