Julie Dunster is passionate about painting from life, on location, in all weathers. Working in oils, she hopes to capture the essence of a moment in the landscape, an emotion in a portrait, a narrative in a still life. Occasionally she works in her mid Devon studio, often using studies made en plein air to inform her painting, or painting commissions,

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Awards

2024 Gloucester Art In The City Plein Air Competition - Second Prize winner

2024 Painswick Rococo Garden Plein Air Competition - Highly Commended Award

2023 International Plein Air Salon Top 100 Finalist

2022 Rotary Club Art Competition First Prize Winner

2019 Broadway Plein Air Paint Off - First prize Winner

2018 Windsor and Eton En Plein Air - Highly Commended Award

 

Exhibitions

2024 September - Royal Society Marine Artists Exhibition, Mall Galleries London

2024 June - August Nature's Garden Group Exhibition Tetbury Goods Shed, Tetbury

2024 June Flower Power Group Exhibition, Seaglass Gallery, Lympstone

2024 April -August Flowers & Faces Solo Exhibition, Cartridges Law, Exeter

2023 November Time and Tide Solo Exhibition, Seaglass Gallery, Lympstone

2023 Royal Society Marine Artists, Mall Galleries, London

2023 Royal Institute Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London

2022 Royal Society Marine Artists, Mall Galleries, London

2022 Royal Institute Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London

2022 New English Art Club, Mall Galleries London

2022 National Trust Killerton

2021 South West Academy Of Art, Kennaway House, Sidmouth

2021 Royal Institute Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London

2021 Society Of Women's Artists, Mall Galleries, London

2021 Royal Society Marine Artists, Mall Galleries, London

2020 Royal Society Marine Artists, Mall Galleries, London

2019 Solo Exhibition, Ginnel Gallery, Salcombe

2019 Group exhibition Greenacres Gallery, Wexford, Ireland

2018 Group exhibition, Harbour House Gallery, Kingsbridge

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Artist In Residence

June 2019 Altitude Festival, Blackdown

July 2019 Merlin Rocket Regatta, Salcombe

April 2019, 2018 Springfest, Cullompton

 

Galleries

 Seaglass Gallery, Lympstone

Vandlys Galleri, Exeter.

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Julie honed her painting skills at the Kidogo Art Institute, Fremantle, Australia. She also holds a First class degree in Education and Psychology from Cardiff University.

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