Julia Sorrell
Talk - "Dreams about Fantasy and Enchantment"
Tuesday 10th September 2024, 2.00 - 4.00pm, in the Pavilion
Julia Sorrell gave a presentation about her work and her recently completed painting "Dreams about Fantasy and Enchantment" in pencil, watercolour and gouache.
Thanks to Robert Marchant for writing this meeting report.
"Both of Julia's parents were artists and life revolved around their studio. Julia, however, was interested in textiles (and still is) and sewed from the age of three. She went to college to study textiles although she later switched to drawing and painting. Julia went on to have a very successful career producing works covering many subjects and mediums. Her work has become increasingly more imaginary and abstract."
"Julia’s presentation today explained the evolution of her latest work, as yet untitled. The painting, in multimedia, included watercolour, gouache, ink and coloured pencil. It took just over three months to complete and was photographed every day. We were taken through the process which started with the reclining sleeping figure. The rest of the scene illustrates her dreams. Many of the objects portrayed are flowers and plants, drawn from life, which then morph into mystical creatures. One of the first of these is the pink poppy, the leaves of which eventually became creatures resembling dinosaurs. As new items were added, some of the original objects disappeared while others survived as ghostly shapes. Colour and composition were paramount and Julia continued every day until she was happy that both were correct."
Some photographs taken on the day ...
More about Julia from her website:
Although Julia's long career began when she was just three, she is still working nowadays as full of ideas as ever and continually trying to solve unresolved problems in drawing and painting as well as creating textiles.
Julia Sorrell's artistic career has been, and still is, a never ending journey to different places as the same place would be too boring for her. She loves to discover and explore and collect. Her studio is full of dried leaves, stones, pieces of wood etc. After all, why cannot a stone be a mountain, a leaf be folded material and so on. Her versatility is such that she can be developing an imaginative 'dreamscape' painting, then perhaps go on to do a straight drawing of plants, then follow that with a highly observed portrait in oil.
Julia has exhibited widely including one woman shows in London and exhibitions around the rest of the UK, Europe and the USA.
Website: Julia Sorrell