About Us – The Drawing Room

Julia Hunt (Smith)

Julia Smith is a Fine Artist from Leicestershire. She has been teaching painting and drawing for over twenty years to a wide variety of students with diverse abilities and demands. Julia graduated from Art college in 1984 having studied at both Loughborough and Preston Polytechnic. She became successful in a number of prestigious arts awards. This enabled her to continue and develop her work of the Northern landscapes of Cumbria. Originally a printmaker of etchings and stone lithography. Julia now spends her time expressing the mark making of paint on canvas.

Julia has works in a number of private collections and with Northern Arts. As well as Greater London Arts and the Arts Council of Great Britain. She has exhibited extensively in Manchester, Lancashire, Cumbria and Leicestershire.

Julia now concentrates on producing her own works as an inspiration to those around her.

My work is an expression of abstract feelings through the physical process of drawing, painting and printmaking. I am motivated by my surroundings. Never having to go looking for inspiration, regardless of whether it is figurative, landscape or animals. I am interested in making works that contain an emotional and sensory stimulation. As well as a curious sense of time.

“I want to paint paintings that make me feel alive, so I’m going to paint bold and colourful”

Julia