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Security
There Was Light
Oils on board 35cm high
It Was Good
Oils on board 35cm high
What Adam Called
Oils on board 35cm high
Eve is Brought
Oils on board 35cm high
Jacob Wrestling
etching 20 x 44 cm
The Windlass: Oils on canvas, 2003 Off the coast of Dalmatia.
The artist's wife operates a remote to draw up the anchor. 28 x 42 in
The Stolen Boat
Oils on canvas, 2002 26 x 40 in.
Leading Out the Horses
Oils on canvas, 2001
Shelley's Book
Oils on canvas, 2004 Painted for the Lewes bookseller Alan Shelley, recording his walk along the High Street from his home to the Bow Windows Bookshop. 20 x 36 in
Watching the Furrow [Four Quartets]
Oils on canvas, 2010
The Tip
Oils on canvas, 1999
Grazia
Oils on canvas, 2008 54 x 30 in
Julian Bell is a painter living in Lewes, Sussex. Besides painting, he writes about art for various magazines and has also written several books including What is Painting? Representation and Modern Art (1999) and Mirror of the World: A New History of Art (2007).
PAINTINGS UP TO 2014 Paintings of Julian's owned by collectors are grouped here under the categories Land and Road; Room and Window; He, She, They; Sky, Wall, Earthand Stories. All Julian's unsold work up to March 2014 was destroyed when the building housing his studio caught fire on the 29th of that month. (For details of this, see Julian's article When fire claims a lifetime's work - The Guardian.) The work that was destroyed is shown under the category Ex-paintings.
CURRENT Security is Julian's first solo exhibition in London for six years. It opens at the Mercer Chance Gallery, 253 Hoxton Street, London N1 5LG on Thursday 3 November and continues till 17 November. Security presents new figure paintings based on present-day life. (Title image: see above.) It also includes a selection from 2015's Genesis sequence. (See above.) Gallery website: www.mercerchance.co.uk