My grandmother's roses started my love of almost everything I hold dear to my heart; gardens, family, painting, dreaming and getting lost amongst the flowers.
Growing up on the edge of the Lancashire moorland, my grandmother’s garden was an oasis in an otherwise barren landscape.
My latest body of work continues my ongoing investigations into the role of the garden as a place of sanctuary. The term garden refers to an enclosed space set apart from untamed nature, a sacred place sheltered from the outside world.
My paintings are not a portrait of one singular landscape, but rather a combination of many, an intuitive non naturalistic colour palette references a mood and explores the margins between control and nature whilst an undercurrent of environmental issues flows throughout my work.
I incorporate various symbolic elements such as water which alludes to purity, the secret language of flowers, and paths that signify journey’s taken or yet to be undertaken.
As an avid horticulturist and ex florist, I have cultivated a garden however small wherever I have lived which I then recreate within my large-scale immersive oil paintings, enticing the viewer into my fantastical world.
In my latest series of watercolour studies on Fabriano paper my aim is to show not only the diverse range of our British wildflowers but also highlight the loss of green spaces.
It is in the shift between what is remembered and imagined that the works take shape, a dichotomy of fragility and preservation.
Julie Moss lives and works in Cornwall and studied Fine Art at Falmouth University, previously Julie grew up in Lancashire and attended Bolton school of Art in 1973 -76, after training to become a florist and working as a textile designer she moved to Cornwall to raise her family.
A finalist in the Windsor and Newton painting prize and John Ruskin Prize, her work was selected for stage 2 of the John Moore’s prize. She has been selected several times for the RWA exhibition in Bristol and Julie is a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists.
Julie’s work has been exhibited in the 2019 Venice Biennale and recently the Royal Academy summer exhibition, and is held in private collections including the Gallery of Modern Art in Malaysia.
Education
2012-2015 /2018 Turps banana correspondence course 2006-2011 B.A. Hons. Fine Art University College Falmouth 1973-1976 Bolton School of Art
Publications and prizes
Art Seen Magazine May 2021 floorr magazine
longlisted jacksons Art prize 2021 Finalist John Ruskin prize Holden Gallery 2019 Pre selected John Moores prize 2018. Fresh Paint magazine Feb 2016 / Oct. 2016 Turps Banana issue 14 2014 Finalist Windsor and Newton painting prize Griffin Gallery London Finalist in Tribe prize, Edgar Modern Gallery, Bath
Permanent collections
Daichi Gallery of Modern Art
Represented by:
Waterside Gallery St Mawes, https://watersidegallery.co.uk
Fig tree gallery Antigua https://figtreestudioart.com
you can now find my work on https://riseart.com
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Bloom online exhibition Create Magazine
2022 the map is not the territory NSA Tremenheere gallery
2022 Memory NSA Tremenheere Gallery
2022 Weary Harold ASC gallery london
2021 Autumn exhibition curators salon
2021 finding Sanctuary visonary Art collective
2020 Royal Academy Summer/winter exhibition
2020 NSA Edge of Dark Tremenheere Gallery
2020 Huss hotel Gstaad Switzerland
2019 Daiichi Gallery of Modern Art Penang, Malaysia
2019 finalist John Ruskin prize ‘Agent of change’ Holden Gallery
2019 Woman’s Essence Palazzo Ca Zenobio Venice collateral event 58th Biennale Di Venezia
2018 166 Annual exhibition Royal West of England Academy 2009, 2011, 2016, 2018
2018 On view Newlyn Society of Artists Tremenheere Gallery
2018 Artsy Alessandro Berni gallery New York
2018 John Moore's prize stage 2 Walker Art Gallery Liverpool
2017 Sketch open Rabley Drawing Centre sketch book on tour at various venues
2017 Arusha Gallery. AFF Hampstead
2016 Correspond Rye Creative centre Rye Sussex
2016 Spectrum Herrick Gallery Mayfair London
2015 Griffin Open, Griffin Gallery London
2015 Newlyn Society of Artists Penwith Gallery St Ives
2015 Winter Exhibition Hadfield Fine Art
2014 New Horizons Porthminster Gallery St Ives
2014 Correspond Turps Banana Group show London
2104 The Tribe Prize Edgar Modern Gallery Bath
2013 Cloud Chamber, Turps Banana group show - Mayors Parlour Gallery, London
2013/2014 Autumn Exhibition Hadfield Fine Art, Cheltenham
2011 University College Falmouth Degree Show
2011 Print! Newlyn Society of Artists, Exchange Gallery - Penzance