Collage

Text "Harbour Works"

Images deconstruct within images, hang precariously from the landscape, like cranes over the harbour, reconstructing in the powerful relationship between all the elements within each canvas. It is an audacious journey, where conflicting and complimentary media are fused together through rich associations - the harbour and sea as music, and vice versa, visually given life, purveying whirlwinds and pools of emotion and spirit. Julia Sutton's harbour transgresses its own reality, and is remade and reworked in the helter-skelter of thought and action, fascinated and uplifted by surfaces (celebrating light on water), but journeying much deeper to where discord breaks through. And it is this discord of method, materials, colour, scale, and translucence which gives these paintings their vigour and harmony.

Rupert Mallin.