Gallery Work

Julie Anne Denton is an artist working predominantly in flameworked and sandcast glass. Julie’s thoughts concerning her preferred medium border on the philosophical. In her own words “Glass has a unique quality unmatched by either painting or traditional sculpture. It is a special material which can be seen through, giving the visual artist the opportunity to describe concepts which would otherwise be ‘impossible’ to visualise through other materials.” Jule Anne uses glass symbolically, her life’s work is to distil her thoughts into their purest essence, a Platonic form if you will. Her work is an emblematic representation of things or ideas that are definitive but precarious, delicate but destructive, eloquent yet elusive, serious but comedic, frank and open, yet full of secrets. Ultimately Julie Anne Denton’s reason for using glass as her chief medium of expression is because the material “is so beautiful, and that gives me the opportunity to make dark things with it!”

For Julie Anne Denton art is an essential vehicle of, she indicates with a wry smile, ‘unbiased commentary’, concerned with the development of the self singularly and, the self within society. Like all things of worth, Julie’s art begins with a good idea. This idea is nurtured, tended and grown into maturity over days, weeks, months and years. The art of Julie Anne Denton is self-indulgent; she uses her life and experiences to convey truths that speak visually. Her singular wish concerning reception, is that the viewer relates to her work whilst taking their own life experiences and views into account. The artwork of Julie Anne Denton is deeply rooted in the symbolic, ancient history of the world and individual mythology. In explanation of her personal work Julie Anne “delights visually reinterpreting famous paintings, poems, songs, philosophies and beliefs, but as always with my own peculiar twist. Succinctly put, my artwork is about birth, life, love, sex and death.”