Artist Profile - Juli-Anne Coward
Fade To Grey
Medium: acrylic on board
Measurements: 78 x 67 cm framed
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Price: £850 plus delivery
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Biography
Juli-Anne Coward was born in the Lake District. In the early days she worked in the textile industry as a spool setter for a rug maker in Kendal and as a sewing machinist making a variety of garments. Juli-Anne completed her Foundation in Art and Design at the Cumbria College of Art and Design. She later studied Graphic Design, specializing in Illustration, at the Bath Academy of Arts in 1994. In 2003 she moved to Herefordshire. Juli-Anne’s work has been exhibited in galleries in Portugal and Spain (where she has her second home) as well as across the UK. A Painting of Bristol Cathedral was used on much of Bristol Cathedral's publicity for 2008 and 2009 and also as their Christmas card for 2008. Juli-Anne was shortlisted for the ‘2008 Canon and Art Business Today print to win competition’. Juli-Anne has worked on numerous commissions over the last few years and her pictures can be found on some of the grandest walls in the country. If you are looking for a commission please contact the gallery directly.
Juli-Anne’s art work was specially selected from a large number of entries to feature in The Bristol and Bath Art book published in 2021 - one of a series of books depicting city images throughout the UK.
Artist Statement
As a child I chose to paint the rooftops visible from my parents window. I have always loved painting all kinds of buildings from ancient to the most contemporary. I believe that all buildings have a certain energy of their own which is independant of the way they are used by the people who inhabit them. I do not have a preconceived idea of how a particular image will evolve, but I prefer to work instinctively and let the buildings divide the painting into different blocks of colour. I will experiment with surfaces and techniques and I will work with all sorts of media such as collage, ghesso, plaster, oils, acrylics and inks. My dramatic use of colour permeates many of the pictures I paint. Colour and lines attract me and as I work I let the colours bleed into one another.