Artist statement
Julie Robinson-Southward is an artist printmaker
based in the Fylde area of Lancashire, England, where she has lived all of her life. After
leaving art school in Blackpool, England, she worked outside the art world, but continued to paint and
exhibit. She was originally a landscape and portrait painter working in oils and
acrylic, but tried various methods of printmaking along the way, and
discovered a love of etching. She had a break from picture making between 1990
and 2009 to pursue other creative interests, but when she retired in 2009 she returned to printmaking. She loves the diversity of results achieved by
the different printmaking processes and the excitement of never knowing what
the end result will be. She mainly does etchings and reductive linocuts, but also
likes to experiment by combining both techniques, and adding collagraph and
stencilled elements. Her inspiration comes from her local area, and its wildlife
and agriculture.
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Education
1966 – 1968: General art and design and Foundation course, Blackpool
College of Art,
1989: Summer school in printmaking at Preston Polytechnic (now UCLan)
2010: Summer school in printmaking at Falmouth Art School
2011, 2012 and 2014: Summer school in printmaking at John Howard Print
Studios, Penryn
Employment History
1968 – 1973: Commercial silkscreen printer and heraldic artist.
1975 – 2009: Civil servant
Exhibitions
Early 1970s Blackpool Art
Society group exhibitions
1979 Garstang Arts Centre Open
Exhibition – selected group .
1981 Lancashire Open, Harris
Art Gallery, Preston . –
selected
group
1982 Art Gallery, St Annes Town
Hall – joint exhibition with one other
1985 Grundy Art Gallery,
Blackpool – joint exhibition with one other
1989 The Old Grammar School
Arts Centre, Garstang – joint exhibition with one other
2012 Open Contemporary
Exhibition, Stockport – selected group
Ribble Valley Art
Studios Open Exhibition, Clitheroe –
selected
group
2013 Garstang Arts Centre Open
Exhibition – selected
group.
Brownedge St Mary Festival, Bamber
Bridge– selected group.
Animalia group exhibition, Australia
and online
Garstang Arts Centre prizewinners group
exhibition
West Lancashire Open Exhibition,
Ormskirk – selected group
Open Contemporary Exhibition,
Stockport – selected group
Ribble Valley Art Studios Open
Exhibition, Clitheroe – selected group
3rd International Open
Submission Printmaking Show, Wharepuke, New Zealand -
selected
international group.
Calder Gallery, Hebden
Bridge. Winter Print Exhibition. Invited Group Show.
2014 Biennial International
Miniature Print Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada - selected
international group
Open Up North, Kendal – selected group
John Howard Print
Studios Group Exhibition, St Ives
Ribble Valley Art Studios Open Exhibition, Clitheroe – selected group
For latest news on exhibitions see facebook.com/Julie Robinson-Southward Printmaker
