"What  you choose to see, you choose to experience"

These are the words that sum up Julia’s approach to life, art and process.

Although Julia is conversant with many media and supports, she primarily uses charcoal and ink because of their conceptual properties of earth, water and musk. This allows her to explore figurative shapes and form on a two dimensional surface, with saturated values in a simultaneously bold and sensitive manner. The marks on paper become notational and gestural, and describe the human form or concepts in a musical, rhythmic style. She likes to hear the charcoal sing!

With a deep respect for the formal structure within life and within art, a work will generally start with a composition of line. Always a door is open to synchronicity and chance, and marks are made with honest expression. Seldom will Julia go back to edit or adjust. The objective is to work quickly and efficiently in the space allotted, flow without thought; to abolish the idea of time in relationship to the creating. Darkness and light become forces which exist in balance on the page.

By working in this immediate way, the charcoal or ink may become thickly laid or remain as thin as air, the goal is to create a visceral feeling of pleasure, to be able to feel the darkness, or the light, the strokes, the energy; to feel the artwork above and below, inside and out. It is Julia’s desire that the viewer realize their relationship with the artwork. She wants them to see beyond their eyes, even after the artwork is gone.

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