Julie Ellis Artist

Studio day – Notes and reflections

Studio day – Notes and reflections

Free writing. Notes on thinking and doing: Methods of working – Timeline · Making marks which felt intuitive to me, responding to the materials and the colour. This resulted in a natural tendency for me to make circular vortex –like marks and compositions. ·...
Exhibition visit – Freud (Self Portraits) at the RA

Exhibition visit – Freud (Self Portraits) at the RA

Spanning nearly seven decades, his self-portraits give a fascinating insight into both his psyche and his development as a painter – from his earliest portrait, painted in 1939, to his final one executed 64 years later. They trace the fascinating evolution from the...
Anselm Kiefer – Exhibition Visit 16/11/19

Anselm Kiefer – Exhibition Visit 16/11/19

The exhibition brings together many of the interests that have characterised Kiefer’s work for decades, including mythology, astronomy and history. Located across the entire Bermondsey space, it features a large-scale installation and paintings that draw on the...
Tate Modern – Visit 16/11/19

Tate Modern – Visit 16/11/19

L-R Rothko, Monet,Yamashita Kikuji ( Deification of a Soldier ), Jeram Patel ( Untitled 1963), Ben Nicholson, Shozo Shimamoto (Holes 1954 ), Yinka Shonibare. Notes: Monet: ‘Water lilies after’ 1916 Oil on Canvas – Verging on abstraction. Painterly, textured and...
Writing Task – Methodology

Writing Task – Methodology

Week of Hell ’94 – Monoprint on paper – 422 x 592 mm (Tate, 1999) ‘Week of Hell’ is a series of mono prints which describe a week of Emin’s life in which she had major dentistry, split from her partner and had a pregnancy terminated. In this piece...