Title: Conversations with Myself
Size: 42cm x 30cm
Medium: Acrylic

Price: £800

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About the Artist


Artist Statement and Summary CV

Julie Barnes is an award winning artist, a visual storyteller. Her work examines the connection between humans and nature. Julie seeks the extraordinary in the ordinary. Working from imagination, memory and rooted in reality, she draws on forms from the visible and invisible ‘other world’. The result is imagery that feels both intimate and universally relatable.  Julie explores the power of wonderment and hope and her paintings offer the viewer an opportunity for stillness and an awareness of the threads that connect us all.  Her artwork is held in private collections and is widely shown, including the prestigious John Ruskin awards, Lynn Painter Stainers Prize,Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Exhibition, and with each of the four Scottish exhibiting societies. Her work has received several awards. She recently completed a commission for large permanent 8 metre public artwork, and had work selected for the inaugural Scottish Landscape Awards.

 

Selected recent exhibitions: 

2025 schedule

Open Eye Gallery ‘On a small Scale’ Exhibition, Edinburgh November - January

Fidra Fine Art ‘Made in East Lothian’ - February - March

Borders Art Fair 2025 ‘VAS’ - outcome awaited - March

Society Women Artists - outcome awaited - June

The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture - RSA Annual Exhibition - OPEN ART 2025 - awaited May - June

Gallery 27 - Dunbar on-going 2025

2024 - 2022

Open Eye Gallery ‘On a small Scale’ Exhibition, Edinburgh November - December 2024

Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) Centenary show: Now and then - Dalkeith Palace -  August 2024

VAS ‘Hope is a thing with feathers’ show at Scottish Ornithological Society, East Lothian - August - Sept 2024

VAS - Centenary show: Then and Now - Royal Scottish Academy - February - March 2024

VAS - Borders Art Fair - March 2024

John Ruskin Awards Exhibition, Trinity Buoy Wharf Gallery, London - January - February 2024

Dukes Gallery - spring show, March - June 2024

Scottish Landscape Awards, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, November 2023 - March 2024

Open Eye Gallery - On a small scale Exhibition, November 2023- Jan 2024

Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 2023

Permanent large scale public artwork, 8 metre wide, Scotland, 2022

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, September 2002 - touring UK 2023

VAS ‘North’ Exhibition, Inverness Academy, 2022

ANGUSAlive Meffan Art Gallery winter show 2022, November 2022 - January 2023

Open Eye Gallery - On a Small Scale Exhibition, Edinburgh, December 2022

Society Scottish Artists (SSA) Borders Art Fair 2022

Royal Society of Painters in Watercolour Annual exhibition (RSW), Edinburgh, 2021

Gallery 27, East Lothian 2022

VAS ‘Reverb’ Exhibition, 2022

2021 - 2020

Open Eye Gallery, On a Small Scale Exhibition, Edinburgh 2021/2022

D31 Gallery Summer Exhibition, Doncaster, 2021

Public Artwork - Marine plastics installation ‘Kairos’, Fringe by the Sea, North Berwick, 2021

Paisley Art Institute (PAI) Scottish Drawing Exhibition, 2021

Brown and Turner Auction House, Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Jedburgh, 2021

Open Eye Gallery, On a Small Scale Exhibition, Edinburgh, 2020/2021

‘Flow’, VAS Members selected group show, 2021

SSA 30 x 30 exhibition, 2021

‘Resonant Strangeness’, Marram Arts online Exhibition, 2021

100 days Scotland Project, 2020

Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) Exhibition, Borders Art Fair show, Kelso, 2020

2019/2018

Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 2018

Royal Institute painters in Watercolour, (RI), London

Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, London, 2018

Borders Art Fair, Kelso

‘The world Outside’ curated collection, Saatchi Art online

VAS Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2019

Threads Exhibition, International Women's Day, Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh

Open Eye Gallery, On a small Scale, Edinburgh

‘Brush with colour’, Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright

Ross Art Gallery, Ireland, 2019

Royal Scottish Academy, (RSA) Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 2018

Invited to join Singulart Gallery,  Paris/London

2017 - 2015

RSA Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

The Art of Love, curated collection, Saatchi Art online

VAS(T) wall of jewels, VAS Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

Macmillan Art Exhibition, Edinburgh

‘As the nights draw in’ Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright

SSA Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

Lyon Turnbull, Sick Kids Foundation, Edinburgh

Arteries Art Gallery, Glasgow

Meffan Gallery Show, Forfar

3 Harbours Arts Festival, East Lothian

FLY, VAS Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

Imago Mundi Scottish Collection ‘Myths/ reality’, Imago Mundi Foundation, Italy

‘Converge’, Visual Arts Scotland ( VAS ) exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

Most recent Awards & Residencies:

Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award

Balavoulin Art Award

Cove Park Artist Residency

Royal Scottish Academy RSA) Keith Prize

University of London (UCL), Lady Belladonna Bursary

Memberships:

Vice - President of Visual Arts Scotland (VAS)

Visual Arts Scotland - professional member

Society of Scottish Artists (SSA)

The Artists Information Company (A-N)