Julie Cross RI

Statement

Julie Cross RI is an elected member of the prestigious Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, living in Yorkshire. Fascinated by the human form, texture and narrative suggestion, she paints expressive figures and enigmatic portraits. Her work is characterised by rich visual textures, glorious, glowing colour and strong lighting effects

Bio

Julie is an elected member of the prestigious Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and has won numerous awards for her art work. She is a figurative, expressionist painter who mostly focuses upon human figures and faces, with which she is endlessly fascinated. Main interests include the interconnections between humans and their environments, individual psychological states, the role of fate, and the power of story. Her work usually features texture, whether that be physical, created with layers of cold wax and oil paint, or optical, suggested by an abstract, scraped underpainting in watermedia.

A graduate of Newlyn School of Art, Cornwall, Julie has studied widely in her practice, in the UK and the USA. She has a doctorate in Children's Literature, as well as an MA in History of Art and an MA in Childhood Studies.

Her work is exhibited widely, nationally and also internationally, and she has paintings in numerous private collections. She exhibits regularly with the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours at the Mall Galleries, as well as with the Society of Women Artists.  Her work is also frequently selected for exhibition at the ING Discerning Eye, among many others.