[Julyan Davis]

Julyan Davis

I primarily paint the landscape. When I began painting, I focused on the figure and the portrait but over time the landscape seems to have pushed its way past every other subject. I paint the coast of Maine in the summers and the South through the fall and winter months.
After leaving art school in 1988 my work settled into traditional realism. At the same time, I spent part of each day working on small paintings for myself that were quite expressionistic, even abstract. On these little panels I could experiment with other oil mediums and techniques. A few years ago I felt I could bring these two ways of working together-- keeping all the light and depth of colour of traditional techniques, but with an emphasis on surface and abstraction. My current painting pursues these concerns..