GLOW
The long hot summers of childhood stretch out like a beckoning palm. Kids squashed in the back seat of the Holden, legs sticking to the seat. Hands windsurfing out the open window in the hot north wind. At last – the Great Ocean Road and the looming black clouds melt into turquoise water as sudden steam fogs the windows and rises on the hot road as the rain pours down cool relief.
You meet at the trampolines, sun bleached, immortal and in love. The surf competes with Pink Floyd on the car radio, the windows steaming up. The rosy future glows out on the horizon.
Older now- the excitement of summer crowds gives way to the lure of the winter holiday. Dog walks in sea mist on the empty, sunset beach the silhouette of the pines against a luminous sky.
Julie Andrew’s paintings literally glow with light and colour captured by an artist at the peak of her powers. But even more than that, they evoke a time and a place – her beloved Lorne where she spent years camping with her family.
Her paintings evoke the glow of childhood memories, driving in the family car buzzing with the excitement of the holiday ahead. The glow of first love and stolen kisses, and the nostalgic glow of revisiting the beloved past. Rites of passage that are forever entwined for many of us, with the story of Lorne.
In this luminous show, Julie has captured those rosy moments. There is wonder and even a sweet sadness that permeates the work as Julie revels in the elements of air and water and the play of light that illuminates both Lorne and her truly beautiful work.
Clarice Beckett would approve.
First Colour oil on canvas 96x63cm
Face to the Sun oil on canvas. 133x103cm
Breathe oil on canvas 133x103cm
Beckoning oil in canvas 133x103cm
Ancient Friends oil on canvas 93x63cm
Amongst the Pines oil on canvas 90x90cm
Forever and Ever oil on canvas 80x80cm
Gentle Rain oil on canvas 80x80cm
Golden Hour oil on canvas 80x80cm
Holding My Memories oil on canvas 103x103cm
Huddle oil on canvas 133x103cm
Journeying oil on canvas 150x150cm
Moonlight oil on canvas 123x183cm
Ocean Side oil on canvas 63x93cm
Sepia Dreams oil on canvas. 80x80cm
Side Tracked oil on canvas 63x93cm
Spirit of Place oil on canvas 103x133cm
Still Waters oil on canvas 93x83cm
Summer Rain oil on canvas 80x80cm
Theatre of Place oil on canvas 93x63cm
Twilight oil on canvas 63x93cm
Unfolding oil on canvas 93x63cm
Warm Sky oil on canvas 93x63cm
Where the Sky touches Everything oil on canvas 80x80cm
Whispers oil on canvas 133x103cm
Gentle Days oil on canvas 103x133cm
Golden Moment oil on canvas 93x63cm
Light Moves oil on canvas 93x63cm