Julie Barrow graduated from Chelsea School of Art in London in 1995. During her time at Chelsea she focused on and developed a very strong drawing portfolio, utilising many still-life applications in her work.
This portfolio saw her move into freelance textile design after graduating, specialising in English florals, drawn from life.
Working from a small studio in South Kensington for the next three years, she quickly became a designer of choice for many of her regular American buyers.
In 1999, she began to develop her first collection of paintings on canvas as an original artist. The collection, mainly acrylic with charcoal & chalk, included a series of 6 studies, all drawn from life. The collection sold out during her first exhibition of the work, at a small local gallery in Chislehurst, Kent, and this set in motion a change in the focus of Julie’s career from designer to original artist.
A three month move to Lisbon in 2002, which lasted for four years, saw her work take on a new sensitivity and a greater sense of maturity, as she began to combine a huge variety of media in her work, from broken CDs, to sand, glue and homemade papers.
The use of subtle muted tones on these heavily textured grounds gave her paintings an inner life of their own. She completed several collections there, from images inspired by the beautiful cobbled streets with colourful washing lines, to work dedicated to the glamour and nostalgia of the traditional Portuguese bullfight.
In 2006 Julie returned to the UK and has since been working on a new collection inspired by changes in herself, a metamorphosis which she is also documenting in the form of a book.
Her new work continues to feature her trademark textural grounds, but the quiet muted tones have been replaced by brighter, more ephemeral colours.
Julie now lives in Kent.
Julie is a mixed media painter, using all manner of materials from sand, glue, paper, rice etc combined with acrylic and tissue paper to build up textured and complex ground which interact with, and weave in and out of the subject matter.Artgallery rating
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Size: 39.40" x 39.40"
Price: £850.00
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