Julia baucou Artist
A native of the Aquitaine, in South-West France, Julia Baucou was immersed in art from an early age by her parents, both of whom were accomplished artists.
Julia spent a number of years travelling, filling her sketchbooks with drawings, and pursuing a variety of professional opportunities before finally deciding to commit herself entirely to her great passion – Art.
In 2012 she spent a year in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, where she painted still-lifes in her studio, exploring the arrangement of every-day objects in pursuit of the perfect composition.
The following year she moved to L‘Ile de la Réunion. Passionate about plants, Julia spent hours drawing in the Botanical Gardens of Mascarin, and in 2014 was invited by the Conservatory to mount an exhibition entitled “Graphic Expression of Plant Motifs”. Her technique was free and expressive, but also precise. Her sketches became calligraphic, inspired by the emotions she felt when losing herself in the tangled forms and mysteries of nature.
That same year she also exhibited a series of self-portraits – “Me in Every Form”.
In her studio Julia’s work becomes alchemy; her painting is figurative, and she uses a variety of media – gouache, water colour, oil pastels, and collage.
Recently Julia has introduced oil paint into her work as well. Her compositions play with the distances between lines and their orientation, as well as the distribution of colour which she uses more to emphasize tonality than to define shapes. Above all, Julia’s passion is to achieve a perfect and harmonious composition.
Julia lives and works in her atelier in Salies-de-Béarn, in South-West France.