Exhibiting At Deli Felice

Hello! My name is Julia Russell and I am a landscape painter. Most recently I have worked along the Thames and in the south of France.

I went to the school of the Art Institute in 1971-1976. I then moved to Alaska with some friends to start a new life. I am not sure if this was the best thing at the time but we were young and headstrong.

I worked for a while at the Alaska Copy Center in Anchorage for a year before moving south to Portland Oregon. There I was employed by the city of Portland in their printing dept.

In 1979 I returned to Chicago and started to work in audio visual for Arthur Anderson & Co Accountants in their in-house publicity dept. However in 1082 I decided to return to London to work for AA&co in the city.

In 1993 after a break I changed direction again, and started working for an estate agency in Camberwell and worked in property until 2017 when I moved to France with my partner John Myers. We bought a dilapadated 17th century village house in a small village and taught plein air workshops in the countryside surrounding us. Unfortunately 2020 bough Covid and this all stopped. At the same time John became ill and it was soon discovered that he had cancer. He died in August 2021. The next summer, when I was traveling with my sister from Houston to Camano Island WA, I decided to sell the house in France and I have since moved back to London in April 2023.

Exhibition runs until the 30th of May

I draw to escape, to de-stress, to dream.

It has to be colour all the way!

Birds, trees, weeds are my faves.

Exhibition runs until the 30th of May