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Julia Sorrell
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| Painter |
| Artist's Statement |
As a child one looks at objects such as clouds or trees and imagination plays tricks turning them into chariots, caricature faces, demons or whatever. Within a shell there could be a landscape, a ripple in a stone could be a ploughed furrow in a field, a rotted stump of wood could be a rock face. Children may think this in their secret world, but it is usually lost by conforming to adult values and conventions of what things are in reality, rather than what they are in their imagination. As an artist I try to harness these qualities in my work.
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| Biography |
Julia grew up in a family of artists and studied at Goldsmith’s College and the Royal Academy Schools. She sold her first painting at the RA Summer show when she was nineteen, and came second in the National Portrait Gallery Portrait Award in 1980, and was then commissioned by the NPG to paint Lord Ramsey of Canterbury.
Julia has since developed her own approach to the drawing of growths and natural forms such as plants, rocks, shells and wood. Fundamentally, she is a figurative artist with a strong belief in sound drawing. She has exhibited at a number of group and one-woman shows including the Bankside Gallery, the Mall Galleries, the Maas Gallery, and Waterhouse & Dodd, Cork Street, as well as in Germany and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her work is in private and public collections in Britain, the rest of Europe, the USA and Australia.
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| Recent Exhibitions |
2007
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In Action, Waterperry Gardens, Wheatley, Oxfordshire, demonstrator in the Painting Tent.
Nature in Art, Gloucestershire
20/21 International Art Fair, Royal College of Art, (Waterhouse & Dodd Stand)
From Nature into Abstraction, at the John Innes Centre, Cambridge |
2008
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The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (RI) Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London; elected a member 2008
The Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) Annual Exhibition, the Mall Galleries, London.
Nature in Art, a joint show with Ian Sanders, The Chappel Galleries, Colchester.
From Nature into Abstraction, New Hall College, Cambridge
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2009
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The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (RI) Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London.
The Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) Annual Exhibition, the Mall Galleries, London; elected a member 2009.
'High Watermark', the first ever joint RWS/RI show, the Bankside Gallery and Mall Galleries.
RI shows at the Russell Gallery, London and the Villa Strecchus Art Gallery, Landau in Platz, Germany.
Mixed Spring Show, The Chappel Galleries, Colchester
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2010
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March - Spring show of Still-Life, The Chappel Galleries, Colchester.
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| Exhibitions in 2010 |
Apr 2010 - The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (RI) Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
Jul 2010 - The RI at the Mid-Cornwall Gallery.
Dates TBC - The Joint RWS/RI Show at the Bankside Gallery and Mall Galleries, London.
15-18 Jul - Art In Action 2010, Waterperry Gardens, Nr Wheatley, Oxfordhshire, demonstator in the Painting Tent.
5-29 Nov - One Woman Show at Bedford School.
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| Contact Details |
Manor Farm
Wash Lane
Snetterton
Norfolk
NR16 2LG
Tel: 01953 498736
Email: juliasorrell@ukartists.com
Web:
www.juliasorrell.ukartists.com
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Clam,
Oil, 91 x 21cm
Harmony,
Oil,
99 x 37cm
Woodscape VI,
Pen & ink and watercolour,
119 x 88cm
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