Julia Pomeroy, London (b.1998) is based at Cell Studios in Dalston, London, and she sells her artworks through Auc Art. Pomeroy graduated from the MFA at City and Guilds London School of Art last year and she was awarded the Leverhulme Scholarship to complete this course. Pomeroy is primarily an oil painter however she occasionally explores similar media in her practice such as oil sticks, spray paint, chalk pastels or monoprinting.

 

Pomeroy has exhibited with a range of galleries across the UK including Assembly House and East Street Arts in Leeds, Eve Liebe Gallery and Brick Lane Gallery in London. She also has participated in online exhibitions such as with London based The Auction Collective and NewBloodArt, and American based Artsin Square. She has been featured in several arts magazines from SuboArt in 2024, Artit and Contemporary Art Collectors in 2023.​​​​​​​​​​

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My painting practice explores figuration in nature and analyses this relationship through luscious colour, gestural mark-making and moments of realism. I often create a feeling of hyper-existence or artificiality that I juxtaposes over caught contemplative figures, who might be hiking, climbing, gardening or swimming. Through depicting underlying psychologies and energies, the way I apply paint challenges a sense of place and stability in my scenes.

 

I have been focusing on how humans’ relationship with nature feels today. Manipulating paint to analyse our experiences in mystical feeling landscapes, and contrast this with man-made objects to reflect the modern world. Locations of nature I investigate, celebrate and reflect through, creates a space to remember our personal, internal relationships with the land. Calling to our ancestry and place on the earth while holding a sense of artificiality that builds up contemporary society through using unnatural colour, sharp contrasts and cropping.  My figures are reacting to their surroundings. Often playing with the elements that encompass them, melting into their environments, sometimes gently taking on a ghostly feel. Whether they are writhing against the rippling surface of a lake, floating and lost within gaseous clouds or twisting into the branches of the forest that surrounds them. I work with lucid waves of strong colour to create different forms and subjects. This functions to challenge the realities from my research, expose an emotional concern or joy within the experience, and contradict seemingly natural scenes with unnatural hues. 

 

Majority of my paintings are inspired by personal experiences and photos, then reinforced by found online imagery, pop culture and art history. There are parallels aesthetically within my work that call to the dynamism found in cartoons, anime, and gaming. This underlying relationship to the digital space woven into my process and techniques aims to communicate what the contemporary sublime is and find a place that exists between the real and imaginary.