Julie Dumbarton
Julie grew up painting as an escape, a part of life that was uncomplicated, almost dreamlike. Her passion became a way of life – an essential way of life.
Julie was lucky enough to grow up roaming the Lake District hills with her brother, her sister, her mum and her dad. Hours of climbing, scrambling and walking, never really appreciating the splendour of what they were presented with, and yet years later she lives and breathes these same images and experiences, only now through her painting and with her own children.
Julie likes to explore many of the same themes and images, the tension between abstraction and representation, the duel between techniques and moods.
Colour plays the main role in what Julie creates. A high or low perspective of densely knotted vegetation, a frantic pattern of grained 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 bolts of illumination.
Julie finds it hard to describe what she specifically want to convey through her work. They are made through feelings rather than words. If Julie was forced to sum up what she wants to express, she would describe them as dreamlike and nostalgic yet contemporary. They speak of memories and the endurance of images. Atmospheric and melancholic, they are inconsequential moments that are highly charged.
As a landscape artist Julie endeavours to inspire and nurture her love of the natural world.
The Scottish Borders and South West Scotland is a wonderful place to live amongst a large community of artists in an area which provides so many of the necessary elements for landscape paintings.
Owl in the Tree
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Sunflower Valley
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Tiny Barn
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