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The
process begins with looking, at a place where I choose to be, or
where I might find myself.
As
an artist, how I 'see' the picture is determined by my individual
personality, by the more than two thousand years of image making,
and also by the rich human resources of philosophy.
My
paintings combine the human need to make connections with the beauty
of a place, the need to mirror what we see and feel when looking
at the open skies, at the ocean, and the changing seasons, along
with the expression of my personal journey.
That
journey can speak also to, what Jung termed as, the 'collective
unconscious', that is, where universal deeper meanings are felt.
I express
the paradox of the self-conscious and self-important modern age,
that of our one life journey, which seems fleeting when this is
contrasted with our sense of timelessness, which is felt through
nature, and history, and which we perhaps desire through complex
beliefs that are based upon faiths.
Whilst
my paintings are a conceptual construct, the design aesthetics of
abstract composition tend to underlay, rather than be the obvious,
overall composition.
The
ultimate image, for me, is where the symbolic and emotional expression
of colour and line maintain their attachment to naturalism and to
narrative. It is for this reason that I take inspiration from the
Renaissance artists.
Julie
Gouldings
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