Artist Profile - Julie Cross
Swish!
Medium: Oil & Cold Wax on Wooden Panel
Measurements: 74 x 54 cm framed
Year: 2023
Price: £1,100 plus delivery
Cyyclades
Medium: oil on cradled wood panel
Measurements: 55 x 55 cm framed
Year: 2024
Price: £850 plus delivery
Glow
Medium: Oil & Cold Wax on Wooden Panel
Measurements: 84 x 64 cm
Year: 2023
Price: £1,200 plus delivery
Revelation
Medium: oil on cradled wood panel
Measurements: 84 x 64 cm framed
Year: 2024
Price: £1,200 plus delivery
Outreach
Medium: oil and cold wax on board
Measurements: 55 x 55 cm framed
Year: 2024
Price: £850 plus delivery
Pray
Medium: Oil & Cold Wax on Wood Panel
Measurements: 84 x 64cm Framed
Year: 2022
Price: £1,200 Plus Delivery
Backlight
Medium: oil and cold wax on wood panel
Measurements: 84 x 64 cm framed
Price: £1,200 plus delivery
Stand of Trees
Medium: oil on cradled wood panel
Measurements: 55 x 55 cm framed
Year: 2024
Price: £850 plus delivery
Banded
Medium: Oil & Cold Wax on Wood Panel
Measurements: 44 x 44cm Framed
Year: 2022
Price: £650 Plus Delivery
Plain Moon
Medium: oil on cradled wood panel
Measurements: 55 x 55 cm framed
Year: 2024
Price: £850 plus delivery
Circle Back
Medium: Oil & Cold Wax on Wooden Panel
Measurements: 74 x 54 cm framed
Year: 2023
Price: £1,100 plus delivery
Swish!
Medium: Oil & Cold Wax on Wooden Panel
Measurements: 74 x 54 cm framed
Year: 2023
Price: £1,100 plus delivery
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Biography
Julie is a multi-award winning artist living in Yorkshire. She is a figurative, expressionist painter who mostly focuses upon female figures and faces to highlight some of the essentials of human existence. Main interests include the interconnections between humans and their environments, individual psychological states, the role of fate, and the power of story. Her work usually features texture, whether that be physical, created with layers of cold wax and oil paint, or optically, suggested by an abstract, scraped underpainting.
A graduate of Newlyn School of Art, Cornwall, Julie has studied widely in her practice, in the UK and the USA. She has a doctorate in Children's Literature, as well as an MA in History of Art and an MA in Childhood Studies. Her work is exhibited widely, nationally and also internationally, and she has paintings in numerous private collections. She exhibits regularly at the ING Discerning Eye exhibitions at the Mall Galleries, as well as with the Society of Women Artists and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, among many others. Awards in the last 5 years: Winner of the Schmincke Award at The Pastel Society 125th anniversary Exhibition, 2024 Runner Up, Art as a Response to Mental Health, Doncaster Art Fair, 2023 Winner, Supporting All Artists' Award, SAA Artist of the Year, 2022 Winner, Best Professional Portrait, SAA Artist of the Year, 2021
Artist Statement
Julie creates enigmatic figurative works, typically featuring solitary female figures and faces. Her employment of ambiguous backgrounds and abstracted landscapes allow viewers to create their own story from the suggested elements. Sometimes the works highlight the interconnections between humans and their environment, sometimes individual psychological states. At other times, they work purely on a more formal, visual level, with the colour harmonies and elegant compositions harking back to classics from art history, but with a modern twist. Julie works with an understated use of colour, and sparingly employs lime greens, cobalt blues, and fiery reds to breathe life into her enchanting subjects. Her paintings vary in size from smaller accent pieces, measuring as little as 22cm x 18cm, through to large statement portraits measuring 85cm x 65cm.
Julie’s paintings are often characterised by rich textures, which are created over time with multiple oil paint applications. Sometimes the oil paint is mixed with cold wax medium and applied boldly, not just with brushes and palette knives, but with rollers and rubber scrapers, adding an exciting contemporary method of glazing and scumbling over existing dry paint layers, creating a sense of veiled mystery. Even her smallest pieces are often many months in the making, as paint is added, and sometimes removed, so that time itself sometimes helps create the unique surface.