About the artist

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