Julie England
New Terrain
September 6 - 24, 2022
Special Reception: September 9, 5-7pm.
Julie’s paintings, inspired by the outdoors, especially arid terrain, will be shown at Strata Gallery, Santa Fe in September. England paints earth tones and saturated color with a sense of place, imagination and yearning. She invites the viewer to travel through topology towards the horizon, where earth melds with sky.
On one wall of Strata Gallery hang paintings with aerial perspective over Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexico properties. Discussions with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM about photographing her sites led to this body of work. O’Keeffe’s Clouds Above Sky series from 1965, where land observed through the airplane window was a most original pictorial idea, is now commonplace. An aerial view enhances the viewer’s awareness of space and triggers one to immediately enter the foreground.
The opposing wall at Strata Gallery holds landscape paintings featuring color and mark-making that convey energy from nature. Paint gestures capture undulating surfaces enabling a sense of movement while standing still.
Julie England is an oil painter who grew up in Wisconsin, Florida and Texas. Her artwork is exhibited in Texas and across the U.S. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX. After a career in the semiconductor industry, England earned an Associates of Arts degree in 2015 at Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, Texas. In 2018 she earned a Bachelor’s of Fine Art degree from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Julie lives and works in the Dallas, TX.
Julie England, River Bed and Hills, oil on canvas, 36” x 48”, 2020