Sutter Creek Artist, Julie Trail, is the Featured Artist at Gallery 10 for September. Julie has been painting the landscape since, in her youth, she began to pay attention to the beauty found in the smallest slices of nature. She is always exploring ways to capture that moment when you slow down and really notice the elegance, the complexity of the spaces and shapes surrounding you.
The Sierra is featured in this new show of watercolors, painted after returning from plein air excursions to the mountains Julie thinks of as her backyard. Julie has booklets full of studies done on location. When painting outdoors, she finds a shady spot and works to capture the rich color in shadows, the shapes that describe the variety of trees, the fleeting, changing colors of reflection on a lake. Once home in the studio, Julie uses her studies and photos to express her excitement on larger sheets of paper.
“Wandering in the Sierra” expresses Julie’s fascination with the mountain landscapes that surround Amador County. A triptych, three single glances of a panorama Julie found on the granite above Caples Lake, where boulders are strewn like popcorn across the cliff top, is the centerpiece of this new show. The three paintings, hung together, bring you into a world atop the mountains where you see a gorgeous, inspiring view everywhere you look. Julie brings that sense of awe into her everyday life, reminding her at each glance of the paintings that the mountains await, always there, with all the silence, the peace, the solidity they impart.
A reception will be held in Julie’s honor at Gallery 10, 15 Eureka St., Sutter Creek, on Saturday, September 3, 2-5 P.M. Stop by, see this new collection of watercolors, visit with Julie, have a snack and a sip of your favorite beverage. Everyone is welcome. The show will hang all of September.
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