Julia Watson worked in London as a successful fashion textile designer/consultant for some years before returning to East Anglia in the early 1990’s.

As shape, colour and pattern were the main elements of her designs, the move into non-representational painting and printmaking was a natural one.

The local landscape has provided her with endless inspiration and subject matter as have foreign locations that she has visited, in particular India and Australia.

She draws frequently from life and has incorporated the figure into some work, fusing life with landscape and abstraction.

Collage allows her to combine textile ideas in a painterly way. Julia is currently painting and drawing on torn dyed papers and cloths.

Colour remains the most important and the most expressive way for her to evoke emotion, and Julia would define the art she creates as being colour combined with energy and movement.

Artists who inspire her include Emil Nolde, Chagall, Ivon Hitchens, Matisse, de Kooning and Aboriginal artists.

Julia Watson’s work has been shown in East Anglia, London, Holland and Dubai.