"I use oil paint to express my experience of the sea, the sky, and the land in-between. My painting process is intuitive and is informed by what I call my "heart response" or "felt-sense", my internal landscape's reflection on the external landscape, as opposed to a striving for a figurative or literal depiction. In the work I am investigating a visual language, using colour, texture and mark-making to convey a powerful elemental energy.
I am trying to capture an expansiveness, a spaciousness or other worldliness, the ephemeral quality of the ever-changing light, the weather, my emotional response, and the magic that this remote, largely unpopulated landscape elicits in me. I am inviting the viewer to enter the space I have created and reconnect with their own experiential memories of being surrounded by the vastness of nature."
After leaving art school, where Jules studied painting, she worked in Community Arts before training to be an Art Psychotherapist. She worked for many years for the NHS in Mental Health and now is painting full-time and loving it.
