Julie Jones
During my residency at St Nick’s I was able to absorb the peaceful atmosphere of the church while working in Fresco. It is a new medium for me and I am interested in exploring its luminosity and surface texture as well as understanding the colour layering and how they fade.
The work is a tribute to the sea. This relates to the church’s maritime connections, memorials to those lost at sea and proximity to the river. Exploring rhythms of the river and the changing light and weather, I found the Fresco process of plastering each layer and working within a certain time on the wet plaster, generated its own rhythm.
I am interested in the idea of low tide expressing a kind of search or sense of longing, and high tide as suggestive of fullness and reassurance. Observations of moments of change between the two states influenced the mark-making
