About
Julia Gallagher is an artist whose work attracts a wide range of tastes: those who look for draughtsmanship and illustration will warm to her recognisable subjects of landscape, seascape, townscape and still life; those who prefer abstract and expressive art will find richness of colour, decorative design and expressive paint work.Julia’s more recent work in which she has specialised in mixed media and watercolour to develop a range of paintings that draw the viewer in by featuring familiar local rural and urban scenes while defamiliarising the imagery through decorative and expressive painterly techniques. In other words the work hovers between abstraction and figuration to foreground issues of ambivalence between the representing and the expressive-decorative functions of art.
Janie Greville May 2007
A dream is defined as a vision of the mind, an insight into a world that only exists inside us, that’s how Julia Gallagher sees the world around her, influencing her life and her art, she has the ability to combine the exciting world in which we live with her own unique and ambivalent perspective resulting in captivating and imaginative art.
El Bicknell May 2006
Julia lives in a houseboat on the South Coast with her partner and two children