Julie Garvey: you can contact me at
juliannewatercolors@gmail.com
Area Artists 2015, Atrium Gallery
University of Southern Maine, Lewiston/Auburn Campus
I
live in Maine, a state of breathtaking beauty.
It provides seascapes and shorelines, mountains and forests, marshes and
bogs, fields and farms, picturepostcard small towns and concrete cities, and
even a few suburban bedroom communities.
It’s filled with colors and angles, textures and shapes, movements and
stases, and all sorts of changeable weather and qualities of light. I especially love its manifold qualities of
light! No wonder so many artists have
come here to work.
My
education: art in college at the University of Georgia, which had a very
innovative Art Department, focused on how to really look at the essence of things. At William & Mary in Virginia, whose Art
Department gave students tremendous freedom to explore, I learned to fuse
traditional techniques with personal expression. Beyond school years, living life, I continued
to paint whenever my career and growing family would let me. And over the years, I have painted more and
more, until now it is what I plan to do with as much of my time as I can devote
to it. My painting has matured with me;
my eye is as hungry as ever; and my desire to capture my continuing relationship
with nature, in all its many personas and splendors, is more vibrant and
compelling than ever. This is what I
love.
