Julie Vohs Fine Art
Artist Bio
In 1998 Julie Vohs sold her belongings, purchased a back-pack, and took off to travel around the world alone. In her travels she painted murals in Istanbul pensions, landscapes in New Zealand, jungle scenes in Thailand and seascapes in Maine.
In 2008, after her mother passed from Alzheimer’s Disease, Vohs began working in encaustic medium, combining abstract and figurative elements as a way of unifying the subjective and objective experience of the world in front of the eyes with the one that is experienced within.
Her work has won awards, been featured on the cover of The Midwesterner Magazine, and exhibited in galleries and shows in the Virginia, Chicago, and the Northeast. She now lives and works in Portland, Maine.
Artist’s Statement
What excites me about painting is the process of finding the metaphor within an image. Ultimately I’m after that satisfying moment when the exterior and interior world come together and co-exist before me in balance. The journey from the inception of a piece to its finish, feels something like crossing the Arctic Ocean on foot, hopping from ice floe to ice floe while color shape and image peak in ebbs and flows around me. As I play with building an image, waiting for it to tell me what to do, my goal is to have the process reach beyond me, into the viewer’s experience.