Julia Colmenares
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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. Colmenares, explores the connection between landscape and the sensory experience through the process of mono-printing. Using gestural marks, she wipes away, scrawls and jabs, revealing an image from an inked steel plate. The resulting imagery is drawn from nature, unconscious or imagined sources. The technique’s time limitation serves as a conduit to both print and painting practice, encouraging spontaneity and honesty in the mark making process. Some works draw from observation, memories, an awareness and 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 pandemic emphasised ‘livingness’ and propelled many to seek nature. Print works, Talking with the Sky and Cosmic Fern, witness this space: alive, introspective and magical, finding beauty in the traditional from the English landscape garden to the fern edged urban areas of Epping Forest.
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. Colmenares, explores the connection between landscape and the sensory experience through the process of mono-printing. Using gestural marks, she wipes away, scrawls and jabs, revealing an image from an inked steel plate. The resulting imagery is drawn from nature, unconscious or imagined sources. The technique’s time limitation serves as a conduit to both print and painting practice, encouraging spontaneity and honesty in the mark making process. Some works draw from observation, memories, an awareness and 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 pandemic emphasised ‘livingness’ and propelled many to seek nature. Print works, Talking with the Sky and Cosmic Fern, witness this space: alive, introspective and magical, finding beauty in the traditional from the English landscape garden to the fern edged urban areas of Epping Forest.
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. Colmenares, explores the connection between landscape and the sensory experience through the process of mono-printing. Using gestural marks, she wipes away, scrawls and jabs, revealing an image from an inked steel plate. The resulting imagery is drawn from nature, unconscious or imagined sources. The technique’s time limitation serves as a conduit to both print and painting practice, encouraging spontaneity and honesty in the mark making process. Some works draw from observation, memories, an awareness and 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 pandemic emphasised ‘livingness’ and propelled many to seek nature. Print works, Talking with the Sky and Cosmic Fern, witness this space: alive, introspective and magical, finding beauty in the traditional from the English landscape garden to the fern edged urban areas of Epping Forest.
