My work references  the mystical perspective of the Visionary Landscape artists such as Samuel Palmer and William Blake, and I strive to relate to the landscape in a way that is primal and intuitive. My artistic responses to place are  deeply rooted in my daily local walks through Stapledon Woods and Caldy Hill on the Wirral Peninsula. Here I experience the changing light and weather, observing  how that reflects the passage of time through the seasons and over the day. I also respond to my own passage through the landscape and consider how that is transformed through memory too.

The physical experience of walking is the starting point for my practice. The act of walking is a daily endeavour which takes me out in all weathers and grounds my sense of place through first hand experience. Conversely, by also observing my fleeting shadow during the walk, I become aware of the transient, and distancing aspect of my walking experience.
On return to my studio, I work from memory in response to these experiences using a range of hard and soft pastel media. My process involves working intensely and intuitively with the thinness and thickness of wet and dry pastel pigment and light and dark colours as I ‘feel’ rather than ‘think’ about the material and colour as I work. I add, subtract, reveal and conceal the emerging imagery  until new colours and forms materialise organically.

I seek to develop a spiritual and emotional narrative which evolves instinctively from a reciprocal dialogue between self and place. Hovering between something simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar, my work invites the viewer into a quiet psychological territory which straddles the line between nostalgic association and something unknown.
 

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Brief Biography

Julie holds a BA first class (hons) in Art with Theology and Religious studies and an MA in fine Art

 She has exhibited widely throughout the u.k including the National Open Art Competition in London, where she was regional prizewinner. Other exhibitions have included The Pastel Society annual open exhibitions at the Mall Galleries in London 2022 and 2023, and 2024 and 2025. Julie was awarded  the 2023 Yoshimoto Prize by the Pastel Society for outstanding work in a dry medium.  She was also included in the 9th Drawing Paper Show publication and exhibition in Liverpool and Platforms Project in Athens.

This year her work was also selected by guest curator and art critic Tabish Khan to be included alongside other recent award winning artists in the Mall Gallery’s ‘Beyond the Prize’ exhibition.

​Julie was very recently the featured artist for ‘The Liverpool Noise’ June ’25 creative spotlight  interview with Steve Kinrade; ‘A  Landscape of Light and Memory’….

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instagram: @jlawrenceart

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