Thank you, Henry!


Julyan Davis
British (b. 1965) - lives in Asheville, NC, USA http://www.julyandavis.comJulyan Davis is an English-born artist who now lives in the United States. He received his art training at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. In 1988, having completed his B.A. in painting and printmaking, he traveled to the South on a painting trip that was also fueled by an interest in the history of Demopolis, Alabama and its settling by Bonapartist exiles. Julyan’s home is now in Asheville, North Carolina.
His work is exhibited internationally and is in many public and private collections. Recent acquisitions include the Gibbes Museum in Charleston, the Greenville County Museum of Art (South Carolina), the Morris Museum (Augusta, GA) and the North Carolina Governor’s Mansion and Western Residence.
His newest work, interpreting traditional American ballads through the contemporary South, is currently touring museums of the South. www.murderballadpaintings.com
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- Henry Smith (3 followers)
Magnificent again, Julyan. Gripping, mysterious, techically perfect yet disobedient to any school. Didn't you know that modern paintings were not supposed to have atmosphere?
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- Dana Briggs (73 followers)
Who is the "jury"? This is incredible!
A joke? Or just some sort of general provocation/ insult?
Wait a minute!!
If I find more of this kind of crap, I'm out!! - Dana Briggs (73 followers)
This is definitely NOT a Bruegel!!
Come on! Open your eyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Deryck Henley (256,449 followers)
@Julyan Davis . The Juries out on this one... There's quite a few websites which say it is and it's his style, but admittedly not under his list of works... Any ideas?
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- Maha Kamel (261 followers)
Thank you Julian Davis for your valuable comment.. This artwork is: "Golden Tears" by Anne Marie Zilberman (in the style of Gustav Klimt). http://maryeatsbrains.tumblr.com/post/71871119084/golden-tears-by-anne-marie-zilberman-in-the
- Julyan Davis (1,378 followers)
The amateur art historian in me has a sneaking suspicion this is not a work by Gustav Klimt.
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- Julyan Davis (1,378 followers)
This was a maquette for something much larger. Think I just worked out what to do next. Only took 9 years.
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- Rebekah Walls (17 followers)
Fire fire! You should make short video when you do something so interesting/fun! My students would love to see!
- Julyan Davis (1,378 followers)
Thanks. This series was done one summer. The subject matter was very specific, but I didn't want to title them as such. I enjoyed using very different materials- bitumen, roofing cement etc on deep blocks of carved wood. I even set fire to this one for a while!
- Rebekah Walls (17 followers)
This is very different from what I'm used to seeing and I really like it! I want to put my fingers in this piece!
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- Temujin Hanlon (775 followers)
Damn! I haven't created a stack yet named Brilliant..but that describes it for me.
- Julyan Davis (1,378 followers)
Thanks so much, Tom. This work from around 2002 came from years of looking at Cezanne and Matisse in preparation for moving away from tight realism in interpreting the American scene. I picked up a book on Diebenkorn at about the same time, and realized someone had got there first! :)
- Tom Henderson Smith (504 followers)
You've made the colours and the fairly rectilinear forms sing out in this one Julyan.
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- Julyan Davis (1,378 followers)
Learning your craft, step one: work out how the dead white males did it, before rushing into the holiday of Modernism :)
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- Julyan Davis (1,378 followers)
Every time I passed this strange, marker-less lawn for the cremated, I wondered how the mourner was supposed to choose a spot for their flowers?
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- Julyan Davis (1,378 followers)
Thank you Temujin. Are you familiar withe old ballad? 'Pretty Polly'? It is very dark, very tragic, but certainly love is in there- the initial love that preceded the kind that is controlling and full of fear on the young man's part.
- Temujin Hanlon (775 followers)
Amazing Julyan..you have executed this work so well I can detect the gentleness of the young lady's fingers on his waist: the whole thing speaks of the tender embrace that does not wish to hold the body so much as the heart. Each content to warm and breathe in the other. Perhaps this will be my favourite depiction of love.
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