Bio/Statement

STATEMENT

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. 

























 


Selected Shows:

2009 ‘Julyan Davis: New Work” Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine

2008 ‘Julyan Davis: American paintings’ Mauger Modern Art, Bath, UK

2007 ‘Julyan Davis: Paintings of the South’ Carolina Galleries, Charleston, SC.

2007/4 ‘Julyan Davis and Ben Owen III’ Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville, NC.

2007 ‘Julyan Davis: New Work’ Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA.

2005  'Julyan Davis and Tom McNickle' Carolina Galleries, Charleston, SC.

2004  'David Dewey, Julyan Davis & Paul Rickert' gWatson Gallery

2004  'Julyan Davis and Ben Owen III' Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville, NC.

2004  'Julyan Davis: New Interpretations' The Fine Arts Center, Highlands,NC.

2004  'Julyan Davis: New Work' John Tucker Fine Art, Savannah, GA.

2003  'Julyan Davis & Joel Janowitz' gWatson Gallery, Stonington, ME.

2002  'Art Afficionado' Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL.

2001  Group Show. Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT.

2000  'Martha Diamond & Julyan Davis' gWatson Gallery, Stonington, ME.

1998  Group Show. Francis Kyle Gallery, London.

1997  'Julyan Davis: New Paintings' Entergy Building, New Orleans, LA.

1995  Group Show. First Street Gallery, New York, NY.

1995  Group Show. Atlantic Gallery, Washington, DC.

1995/4  Group Show. Mistral Gallery, London.

1993  'Julyan Davis: New Paintings' Gadsden Arts Center, Gadsden, AL.

1988  '˜Three Artists' Poole Art Center, Poole, Dorset.

Education:

1984-1985  Filton College, Bristol. (Art Foundation Course)

1985-1988  Byam Shaw School of Art, London. (B.A. Painting and Printmaking)

Selected Collections:

Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC.

B .F. Goodrich Corp. Charlotte, NC.

National Bank of Commerce.

Amsouth Bank

Sloss Furnaces National Historic Monument, Birmingham, AL.

Banker's Club, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Skyline Club, Indianapolis, IN.

Retirement Systems of Alabama, Montgomery, AL.

Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, AL.

Compass Bank.

University of Montevallo, Montevallo, AL.

Samford University, Birmingham, AL.

Fine Art Center, Highlands, NC.

Byam Shaw Permanent Collection, London.

Reviews and Publications:

Garden and Gun Magazine 2007

Carolina Arts Magazine 2005

Museum and Galleries Guide 2001/1999

Asheville Citizen-Times 2001

Birmingham News 2001

Bangor Daily News 2000

Savannah Morning Post 2000

Times-Picayune 1996

Memphis Commercial Appeal 1994









































































Julyan Davis is an English-born artist who now lives in the United States. He was born in 1965 and received his art training at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. In 1988, having completed his B.A. in painting and printmaking, he travelled to the South on a painting trip that was also fuelled by an interest in the history of Demopolis, Alabama and its settling by Bonapartist exiles.

This interest in Alabama's early history brought him to Tuscaloosa, where he met his future wife. Julyan and Madeleine now divide their time between Highlands and Asheville, North Carolina. Julyan is known for his paintings of Western North Carolina, the Maine coast and the Low Country of Georgia and South Carolina. He also paints the figure and still life.








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