Help Ukraine: Without Reserve

Julie Caves tells us that she painted this painting while in her second year on the Turps Studio Painting Programme in London. “It was a favourite of many of my fellow painters, surprisingly popular for a small, simple painting.”

Julie Caves is interested in sunlight, creating painterly space, and perceptual ambiguity. When not painting sunshine or distance, she paints objects that are not easily identified. The ambiguity of seeing just a part of something or a group of unspecific objects means the viewer isn’t sure what it is they are seeing and their brain has to try to figure it out, drawing from all their past experiences of seeing things. One person will see folds of cloth across a body and another will see rolling hills in a landscape. Each viewer chooses the meaning and completes the painting in a way unique to them.

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