Portraiture Artist Julie Crews | Niel, Sitting | Oil Painting

I paint what takes me out of the studio: the life it takes to nurture a family. My work concentrates on the very scenes of domestic life that take me away from the studio. In “Niel, sitting”, I was busy cooking in the kitchen one Sunday afternoon. I turned the hallway corner to find my young children playing happily on the big couch in the living room and my dear husband, Niel, in the red chair, completely immersed in the noise. Moments like this are loaded and fleeting.

I paint in oil and give the viewer an intimate glimpse into my personal life, exposing the delicacy of monotony and repetition regarding domestic life. I generally work from snap shots taken during the course of my week. I take a lot of photos, sometimes with my cell phone, of seemingly boring landscapes or interiors or people in my life doing mundane things. An image that becomes a painting is never an orchestrated still life or the product of a requested portrait sitting, rather, the idea for a painting finds me later in the stacks of slapdash photos I have taken.

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