This 3-month long solo exhibition showcases a stunning body of work, including over 40 original, hand-pulled prints of botanical subjects and landscapes. Techniques range from intaglio dry points and collagraphs to graphic linocuts and complex, highly detailed reduction linocuts, plus examples of beautiful hand-printed vintage French linen.
Hosted by Temporary Exhibition Space of the Maison du Parc et du Geoparc, Carrouges, and running from 6 April to 30 June 2024.
Open every day from 10 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm.
Meet the artist in the afternoon of 12 June, 2024, in the Maison du Parc, for a demonstration in linocutting.
Julie North, a British relief and intaglio printmaker living and working in Mayenne, NW France, is inspired by her love of plants and flowers discovered in hedgerows, woods and gardens. Born and brought up in the south of England, Julie lived most of her adult life in North Yorkshire, surrounded by open countryside and wildlife, before moving to rural France in 2015. She began printmaking in 2011, following a short course in lino cutting. Largely self-taught since, and through much experimentation with the medium, Julie specialises in the reduction linocut technique, where the image develops in layers, while a single block of linoleum gradually diminishes in a series of cuts and marks, alternating with rounds of inking and printing.
Her work is held in private collections around the world and has been presented in juried exhibitions across Europe and the United States, receiving several awards, most notably a Silver Medal at the Salon des Beaux-Arts of the National Society of Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris (2019).
