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Julia Rowlands
Julia Rowlands is a professional artist based in Cornwall and teaches 'Use of expressive colour'.
Photographic documentation supplies the start for the realistic and colour-intensive city views and landscape paintings. By means of photography she succeeds in recording light and colour at one particular instant which, Julia believes, is ‘momentarily addictive’. This can then be transferred into the studio with oil, pastel and paint, in sketches and paintings.
She discovers the unusual nuances which characterise her expressive pictorial language. The artist most often describes common road scenes and the panoramas of urban views from our immediate environment, which make up the dynamic set of connections from nature and habitat, civilisation and social needs. Street lamps, building sites, traffic signs, parked cars - accessories in our everyday traffic-dominated world - flank sumptuous avenues of trees dipped into harmonious glittering sunlight. The current Cornish scenes focus on views of gritty commercial boatyards through dramatic pink lit skies.
These nearly surreal-seeming sun-flooded urban and coastline pictures shape Julia Rowlands’ work, and distinguish the artist as a subtle witness of our present times