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An example of work by Julie T. Chapman
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Julie T. Chapman's work often features a wild animal or group of animals captured in their environment in a "relatively loose but naturalistic style." Other works may exude the animal's mannerisms or behavior with the background abstracted. Either way, she applies her paint with a palette knife, sometimes in layers of thin paint, other times thickly.
From a young age she produced an unending stream of horse drawings, influenced by a childhood on an Ohio farm. Years later she moved to take a job with Hewlett-Packard as a computer engineer. While working in California, she began taking weekend hiking and backpacking trips in various mountain ranges around the West and discovered "more animals than horses!"
"It was my first awakening to wildlife. Then in 1993 I went to Costa Rica, and the exotic profusion of life there really got me stirred up. I realized I wanted to spend all my vacations traveling to find wilderness and wildlife" Chapman explains.
Without formal art instruction, she began studying books on artists such as Carl Rungius, Wayne Thiebaud, and Bob Kuh, and other late 19th- and early 20th-century painters.
Going out in the wild to find her subject matter with a camper on a 4 x 4 pickup including a battery charger for a video camera and video batteries-she and her husband, videographer Paul Stafford, head for remote spots around the West and in Alaska whenever they can. Together they've made numerous trips into the heart of the wilderness. They recently moved from California to Montana which allows them to be closer to Yellowstone National Park. Chapman's studio looks out onto "lots of trees . . . and loads of deer, black bears, and birds."
She gives back to nature by giving a percentage of her art sales to The Nature Conservatory and has created prints to benefit the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
Chapman's "Illumination" won the top prize of $50, 000 at the 2002 Arts for the Parks competition in Jackson, Wyoming. She is also a member of the Society of Animal Artists. In 2004, her painting of ravens titled "Ready to Rumble" was installed in the training facility of the Baltimore Ravens NFL team.
Source:
Gussie Fauntleroy, Southwest Art, June 2003, "Wild Encounters"
Southwest Art, December 2002
www.julietchapman.com
Wildlife Art, November 2004 |
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