Profile
Transient beauty, delicate details, forms and tones in nature are revealed in her studies of flora and fauna and landscape. Julie North, a British relief and intaglio printmaker living and working in the Mayenne, France, is inspired by her love of plants and flowers discovered in hedgerows, woods and gardens. Born and brought up in the south of England, Julie lived most of her adult life in North Yorkshire, surrounded by open countryside and wildlife, before moving to rural France in 2015. She began printmaking in 2011, following a short
course in lino cutting. Largely self-taught since, and through much experimentation with the medium, Julie specialises in the reduction linocut technique, where the image gradually develops in layers, while a single block of linoleum gradually diminishes in a series of cuts and marks, alternating with rounds of inking and printing. Gradations of colour create subtleties in atmosphere in her limited-edition prints.
Her work is held in private collections around the world and has been presented in juried exhibitions across Europe and the United States, receiving several awards, most notably a Silver Medal at the Salon des Beaux-Arts of the National Society of Fine Arts AnnualExhibition, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris (2019); she is a guest artist in exhibitions and collaborations in Italy (Asolo, Miniprint exhibition, 2024) and Germany (Body and Soul & Corvinus Presse, Berlin – exclusive editions published in issues 34, 37 and 41).
