August 17, 2023
QZ ^^^UPDATE^^^
JULIE WAGNER
Watercolors
QZ ^^^UPDATE^^^
JULIE WAGNER
Watercolors
From the Editor: This lovely watercolor series by Julie Wagner highlights how useful and luxurious it is for Julie to explore color and form without the third dimension. Artists use other mediums and tools to explore, loosen up, experiment and refresh their work. Julie has worked with paper, book forms, circular orbs and floating boats in three dimensions. These recently created, loose, colorful and gestural, watercolor paintings, which remind me of Joan Mitchell and the late years of Willem de Kooning, are full of life and freshness. Julie now lives in an historic Albuquerque neighborhood near family. Julie is still working. Keep a look out for her in the future.
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I spent much of my childhood roaming the woods of the northeast, collecting leaves, flowers and seeds, and any other odd finds that caught my fancy. This practice continues today. I have containers with castoff snake skins, tiny skulls, jars of colored sand, and all sorts of seed pods, bugs, and odd sticks and stones. I love maps, diagrams, natural pigments and dyes.
Cha Cha Cha
watercolor on paper 12”x 12” 
Mesa Rhapsody
watercolor on paper 14”x 14” |
Buzzing Breezes
watercolor on paper 14”x 14” 
Autumn Rhythm
watercolor on paper 14”x 14” 
Sunstorm
watercolor on paper 14”x 14” I am also interested in borders, boundaries , edges, the spaces where lifeforms need to be more adaptable and open to change, as for instance, the littoral zone, the land between high and low tide,
Mountain Mambo
watercolor on paper 12”x 12” |
I am interested in flow…the flow of water, flow of air, blood through arteries and veins, time, ideas, movement through space. My pieces sometimes start as an idea in search of a form and sometimes as a structure that dictates a theme.
Winter Waltz
watercolor on TerraSkin 12”x12” I see my work as a “map” of my thoughts —-a way of making visible something rather amorphous and fluid—-in the way that a topo map translates all the messy cacophonous complexity of the landscape into an elegant two-dimensional frozen image.
Jitterbug
watercolor on paper 12”x 12” 
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