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Julie Held
‘The journey to a deeper spiritual reality takes many forms. The people in Julie Held’s most assuredly figurative paintings all exist on the psychic threshold, as it were. A borderland state, which promises, in many cases, potential inner treasures of great price. They are depicted as dreamers, swimmers, voyagers, brides and grooms, the dying, readers seeking knowledge, mourners, religious congregants and as celebrants at (literally) the table of life. The heart-rending vulnerability - and simultaneously, secret, often unsuspected and transfiguring inward strengths of those we love, is perhaps the chief subject of Held’s art.’
Phillip Vann
www.julieheld.com
‘The journey to a deeper spiritual reality takes many forms. The people in Julie Held’s most assuredly figurative paintings all exist on the psychic threshold, as it were. A borderland state, which promises, in many cases, potential inner treasures of great price. They are depicted as dreamers, swimmers, voyagers, brides and grooms, the dying, readers seeking knowledge, mourners, religious congregants and as celebrants at (literally) the table of life. The heart-rending vulnerability - and simultaneously, secret, often unsuspected and transfiguring inward strengths of those we love, is perhaps the chief subject of Held’s art.’
Phillip Vann
www.julieheld.com
 Blue Still Life, oil on canvas, h182.9cm x w121.9cm, £4000 |
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 The Gift, oil on canvas, h92cm x w96.5cm |
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