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Sculpture: Julie Janvrin: Artist Statement |
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Julie Janvrin was born in 1949. After a career in the theatre, she
studied Ceramics at Falmouth College of Art in Cornwall. Drawing from
her experiences on the stage, her early work focused on characters,
dancers and performers of all kinds, many from the plays of
Shakespeare. This body of work was exhibited and sold at various
theatres and Galleries including The Chichester Festival Theatre, The
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, and at The Capitol
Theatre Horsham.
She then chose to focus on the female form in all its abstraction.
Influenced by 20th century artists such as Maillol and Giacometti she
produces elongated abstracted female nudes.
In addition to these she creates larger scale torsos. By using the
ancient method of Raku firing she presents the figures in a tarnished
colour palette of silver, greens and greys.
Julie runs her studio at home in Sussex, is a member of the Sussex
Artists Association and is co-owner of the Green Tree Gallery. |
