'Beneath the Same Sky '

Julie Dumbarton

Painting for Julie is like putting a hand in a glove - it fits perfectly.

Julie grew up painting as an escape, a part of life that was uncomplicated, dreamlike.  A passion that became a way of life - an essential part of life.

She likes to explore many of the same themes and images, like the tension between abstraction and representation, a combination of techniques and moods.

Colour is the essential part of what Julie creates.  A high or low perspective of densely knotted vegetation, the frantic patterning of gnarled wood or choking greenery that is so visually claustrophobic it has to be rescued by some sense of the landscape it lies in, she sees it as a bolt of illumination.

Julie finds it hard to pinpoint what she wants to convey through her work.  They are made through feelings rather than words.  If she had to sum up what she would like to express, Julie would describe them as dreamlike, nostalgic yet contemporary.  They speak of memories and the endurance of images.  Atmospheric and melancholic, they are inconsequential moments that are highly charged.

Beneath the same sky is a celebration of a unique friendship between two artists separated by thousands of miles, but united by a love of the world in which we are all lucky enough to live in.

Will be exhibiting in the Gallery along with

James Kasperek

19th June - 12th August 2008