Julie Edwards

Born in Lancashire, Julie Edwards is based in the UK, where she has been working from her studio at Eagle Works Studios and Gallery since 1991. Since 2020, Julie has been working in a purpose build studio at the bottom of her garden. Julie has been working steadily, progressing from large semi-abstract paintings that often took on an aerial view of both industrial and natural landscape, towards working now in a more sophisticated and personalised semi-abstract format.

Julie introduces herself as a semi-abstract landscape artist whose artwork is very much influenced by the natural environment around her. Paces she visited and experienced become images in her mind and inspiration for a new painting. Capturing the experiences into journals and later on sketches. She describes eventually transferring her inspiration as" an entirely new experience, almost an emotional response.'' where other factors such as literature read, escapism from the goings on around her and the horrors in the world, spirituality and sometimes mythology. Sometimes a painting is created from just being obsessed by drawing with different qualities of line, or looking at the essence of light, or simply using different balances of colour. All of these factors can have an impact on the work back in the studio.

Besides being a painter, Julie Edwards is also a lecturer at the City of Wolverhampton (1994- to date: Visual studies and painting)

Below is a selection of Julie's exhibitions over the last couple of years:

2021 

-'' Pro Arty'' Collaborative online exhibition between poets and artists.

- "Venus and Madonna- Celebrating Women in Art" 3D Virtual exhibition, Gallery 44 (G)

- *Beyond Perfections", 3D virtual online exhibition, Gallery 44 (S)

2020

- *Beyond Perfections", 3D virtual online exhibition, Gallery 44 (S)

-"ProArty it's A Mash up"An exhibition of art inspired by poems and poems inspired by art. Wolverhampton, UK (G)

2019

-"Natural Rhythms' Two person show with photographer,John Edwards (S)

-2nd Annual "Tate of the World" Exhibition, Try it Art Gallery and Back to the Picture, San Francisco, CA (G)

- "Spring Exhibition", Try it Art Gallery in Bragg Creek, AB (Canada) (G)

- " Art Without Borders", Try it Art Gallery in Bragg Creek, AB (Canada) (G)

2018

-First Annual "Taste of the World" Exhibition, Try it Art Gallery and Back to the Picture, San Francisco, (G)

-''Balance" selected exhibition, Artist Workshop, Studley, Warwickshire, Uk (G)

- Wolverhampton Open studio, presented by Wolverhampton Society of artists and group exhibition, Eagle Works Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK (G)

-''Julie Edwards at the Shine" Leeds, UK (S)

2017

- Wolverhampton Open studio, presented by Wolverhampton Society of artists and group exhibition, Eagle Works Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK (G)

-"Mini Masterpieces" Artist Workhouse, Studley, Warwickshire, Uk (G)

2016

-"A Shared Journey", with photographer John Edwards, Eagle Works Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK 

- Junction Festival Open studios, presented by Wolverhampton Society of artist and group exhibition, Eagle works , Wolverhampton, UK.

-''And The Beat Goes On`' Asylum Gallery, Wolverhampton. Uk (G)