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First Name	Julie
Last Name	Barrow
Born	1974-01-22
Country	United Kingdom


Biography
Julie Barrow graduated from Chelsea School of Art in London in 1995. During her time at Chelsea she focused on and developed a very strong drawing portfolio, utilising many still-life applications in her work. This portfolio saw her move into freelance textile design after graduating, specialising in English florals, drawn from life. Working from a small studio in South Kensington for the next three years, she quickly became a designer of choice for many of her regular American buyers. In 1999, she began to develop her first collection of paintings on canvas as an original artist. The collection, mainly acrylic with charcoal & chalk, included a series of 6 studies, all drawn from life. The collection sold out during her first exhibition of the work, at a small local gallery in Chislehurst, Kent, and this set in motion a change in the focus of Julies career from designer to original artist. A three month move to Lisbon in 2002, which lasted for four years (!) saw her work take on a new sensitivity and a greater sense of maturity, as she began to combine a huge variety of media in her work, from broken CDs, to sand, glue and homemade papers. The use of subtle muted tones on these heavily textured grounds gave her paintings an inner life of their own. She completed several collections there, from images inspired by the beautiful cobbled streets with colourful washing lines, to work dedicated to the glamour and nostalgia of the traditional Portuguese bullfight. In 2006 Julie returned to the UK and quickly completed a cave painting inspired collection, a theme which can be seen in work as early as 2003. These new pieces are alive with a new freedom and feel less restrained than the earlier works. Julie is currently working on a new collection inspired by the theme Cosmos, of which the first two pieces are showcased here. This new work continues to feature her trademark textural grounds, but the quiet muted tones have been replaced by brighter, more ephemeral colours and some grounds look almost accidental which adds to the depth and intrigue of the piece.

Style Impressionism

An art movement founded in France in the last third of the 19th century. Impressionist artists sought to break up light into its component colors and render its ephemeral play on various objects. The artist's vision was intensely centered on light and the ways it transforms the visible world. This style of painting is characterized by short brush strokes of bright colors used to recreate visual impressions of the subject and to capture the light, climate and atmosphere of the subject at a specific moment in time. The chosen colors represent light which is broken down into its spectrum components and recombined by the eyes into another color when viewed at a distance (an optical mixture). The term was first used in 1874 by a journalist ridiculing a landscape by Monet called Impression - Sunrise.

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Woman in Grey
by Barrow

Torreiro
by Barrow

The Spin
by Barrow

The Final Phase
by Barrow

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Style Representational

Artwork that purports to represent what is seen; also called objective art.

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Style Expressionism

An art movement of the early 20th century in which traditional adherence to realism and pr...

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Style Cubism

An art style developed in 1908 by Picasso and Braque whereby the artist breaks down the na...

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Style Abstract Expressionism

Movement in painting, originating in New York City in the 1940s. It emphasized spontaneous...

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