Julia von Metzsch:
Surrounding Kettle Island
On View: January 3 - 25, 2020
Reception: Friday, January 3, 6 - 8pm
“I have been painting observed oceanscapes and plein air studies. The more change there is the better. The only rule I have for myself is to start painting an event in nature before it occurs. I pay attention to conditions so I don’t miss the next chance to paint a specific scene. I notice the barometric pressure. I follow several weather, tide and wind applications. My experience living in Boston for most of my life and always dancing around landscape painting in my work have lead me to know when to wake at 5 am for that certain cloud or particular ocean glitter reflection. These are spring and fall paintings. I love to observe change, life, growth and decay around the equinox. Sometimes a painting is a collage of several different landscapes in one because that is the direction things took, but, for the most part, if a painting must be done in several sessions I try to make it within one cycle of the moon or I save it for the next year, same place same tide.” - Julia von Metzsch
Julia von metzsch
Julia von Metzsch offers a body of work that is vigorous and distinctive. Her paintings are primarily seascapes done on site from Massachusetts’ north shore. Islands, trees, and rocks all come in and out of view, but what is most mysterious is the atmosphere and movement von Metzsch is able to capture.
Von Metzsch received her BA in 2007 and Masters in 2010 in Fine Arts from Boston University, and then returned to Boston University as a MFA Painting Fellow at the School of Visual Arts. von Metzsch is in the collection of Danforth Art.
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