Julia Whitehead

City Movements by Julia Whitehead
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Oil on Canvas
Size: 120 × 100 cm
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Individuals by Julia Whitehead
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Oil on Canvas
Size: 35 × 45 cm
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Summertime by Julia Whitehead
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Oil on Canvas
Size: 35 × 45 cm
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Daylight Walk by Julia Whitehead
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Oil on Canvas
Size: 35 × 45 cm
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Places To Go by Julia Whitehead
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Oil Painting
Size: 120 × 150 cm
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Connections (Pastel Light) by Julia Whitehead
£3,750.00
Oil Painting
Size: 120 × 120 cm
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Blue Zone by Julia Whitehead
£2,950.00
Oil Painting
Size: 100 × 100 cm
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Piccadilly by Julia Whitehead
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Oil Painting
Size: 120 × 150 cm
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Street Living by Julia Whitehead
£1,350.00
Oil Painting
Size: 75 × 90 cm
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In the Blue by Julia Whitehead
£1,600.00
Oil Painting
Size: 56 × 76 cm
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Mixing Pot by Julia Whitehead
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Oil Painting
Size: 120 × 120 cm
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Road Rush by Julia Whitehead
£2,950.00
Oil Painting
Size: 100 × 100 cm
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Departure Point by Julia Whitehead
£2,950.00
Oil Painting
Size: 102 × 102 cm
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4 O’clock Meeting by Julia Whitehead
£2,200.00
Oil Painting
Size: 109 × 88 cm
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United Colours by Julia Whitehead
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Tags: Contemporary Painting, Julia Whitehead, Oil Painting
Size: 120 × 120 cm
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Everyday Life by Julia Whitehead
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Size: 100 × 100 cm
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The study of human crowds and moving figures is the main focus of Julia’s paintings. Using a variety of photographic reference material and her own imagination, Julia captures the spirit of society on the move.

Paintings, of whatever scale, start with a brightly coloured acrylic background onto the white canvas. The abstract nature of this background painting often dictates which direction the final painting will go and elements of the paint layers are left to show through the overpainting to varying degrees. Oil paint is built up over several layers, sometimes wet on wet, other times the oil is allowed to dry sufficiently to paint over, often resulting in a highly textured surface which creates shadows of its own.

The focus on these figure paintings originated with a fascination of the shadows cast by figures when viewed aerially. The beautiful shapes cast on pavements are generally hard to appreciate when life is moving all around but are mesmerising when freeze framed in a photograph. Equally, the patterns made by bodies moving in a crowd or seen from unusual angles, have an artistic quality of their own.

“I enter into a slightly meditative state when painting, especially with the more impressionistic figurative crowd scenes. As in life, each small figure takes on a characteristic of its own and has its own individual relationship to the figures that surround it. People seem to enjoy the paintings as they see something new in them each time they look at them.”