Jules Allan
Jules’ subject matter is often related to mortality, sexuality and the vulnerability of the human body.
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Working on canvas, Jules Allan builds up each painting layer by layer, using pencil drawing, oil paint, plaster, and stitching. She doesn’t set out with any fixed idea about what a finished painting will look like. The marks and forms emerge during the painting process. Each piece has its own mood, energy and atmosphere. By tuning into the feeling of the painting, she allows the painting to develop over time.
Jules’ subject matter is often related to mortality, sexuality and the vulnerability of the human body. Although her work has a human presence, the forms she uses are not human forms as such. They relate to the body rather than representing it directly. The forms are either fragile or tough, blurred or sharp, and are either separate or merged. Each abstract painting establishes its own identity. -
Jules Allan was born in Glasgow. She studied fine art at the University of Brighton, graduating in 1990. Her degree show won the Platform Graduate Art Award - Painting 1st Prize and was exhibited at the Hove Museum.
Jules was involved in setting up and running Maze Studios and later joined Phoenix in Brighton. In 1993, she obtained her MA in Art Psychotherapy. She has practised as an art psychotherapist in the NHS and prison service for over twenty years. Her dual practices, as an artist and psychotherapist, inform one another. Both reflect a passion for using art as a way of giving form to what is unformulated; expressing things that may feel impossible to put into words.
Jules Allan’s work has been featured in a wide range of exhibitions in the UK and abroad, and is held in private collections worldwide.
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