Julia Colmenares | Talking with the Sky, 2024
Monotype
Media Dimensions: 100 x 150 cm
Image Dimensions: 100 x 150 cm
Unique Work
Framed only
Julia Colmenares (UK, USA) Her painting and print practice is informed by landscape, the imagination, and the emotive act of gestural mark-making – physical energy transferred from the body to the metal plate or canvas. Mono-printing translates the experience of nature into sensuous marks. She wipes away, scrawls and jabs, revealing an image from an inked steel plate. The technique’s time limitation encourages spontaneity and honesty in the mark making process. Some works draw from observation, memories, as well as a personal questioning of cultural shapeshifting and transnational perceptions of landscape. Being an American living abroad has brought her closer to her own roots and histories. The recent mono-print, *Talking with the Sky,* is a sentinel to the traditional English landscape garden. The energetic movement and lifting of ink contradicts the stillness of the pond and the Picturesque gaze; a gaze, a colonial aftertaste that is both homogenous and heterogenous, where complicity and beauty merge. A personal hybridity in cultural backgrounds acts as a motor to her research and reflections, as does being a female artist. *Cosmic Fern* celebrates the ‘*Wanderer’,* where walking and relaxed looking finds both beauty and extraordinary in the familiar: be it traditional, from the English landscape garden or to the fern edged urban areas of Epping Forest.
Monotype
Media Dimensions: 100 x 150 cm
Image Dimensions: 100 x 150 cm
Unique Work
Framed only
Julia Colmenares (UK, USA) Her painting and print practice is informed by landscape, the imagination, and the emotive act of gestural mark-making – physical energy transferred from the body to the metal plate or canvas. Mono-printing translates the experience of nature into sensuous marks. She wipes away, scrawls and jabs, revealing an image from an inked steel plate. The technique’s time limitation encourages spontaneity and honesty in the mark making process. Some works draw from observation, memories, as well as a personal questioning of cultural shapeshifting and transnational perceptions of landscape. Being an American living abroad has brought her closer to her own roots and histories. The recent mono-print, *Talking with the Sky,* is a sentinel to the traditional English landscape garden. The energetic movement and lifting of ink contradicts the stillness of the pond and the Picturesque gaze; a gaze, a colonial aftertaste that is both homogenous and heterogenous, where complicity and beauty merge. A personal hybridity in cultural backgrounds acts as a motor to her research and reflections, as does being a female artist. *Cosmic Fern* celebrates the ‘*Wanderer’,* where walking and relaxed looking finds both beauty and extraordinary in the familiar: be it traditional, from the English landscape garden or to the fern edged urban areas of Epping Forest.
Monotype
Media Dimensions: 100 x 150 cm
Image Dimensions: 100 x 150 cm
Unique Work
Framed only
Julia Colmenares (UK, USA) Her painting and print practice is informed by landscape, the imagination, and the emotive act of gestural mark-making – physical energy transferred from the body to the metal plate or canvas. Mono-printing translates the experience of nature into sensuous marks. She wipes away, scrawls and jabs, revealing an image from an inked steel plate. The technique’s time limitation encourages spontaneity and honesty in the mark making process. Some works draw from observation, memories, as well as a personal questioning of cultural shapeshifting and transnational perceptions of landscape. Being an American living abroad has brought her closer to her own roots and histories. The recent mono-print, *Talking with the Sky,* is a sentinel to the traditional English landscape garden. The energetic movement and lifting of ink contradicts the stillness of the pond and the Picturesque gaze; a gaze, a colonial aftertaste that is both homogenous and heterogenous, where complicity and beauty merge. A personal hybridity in cultural backgrounds acts as a motor to her research and reflections, as does being a female artist. *Cosmic Fern* celebrates the ‘*Wanderer’,* where walking and relaxed looking finds both beauty and extraordinary in the familiar: be it traditional, from the English landscape garden or to the fern edged urban areas of Epping Forest.
