Julia Chandler Lawing
Concord, NC
contemporary oil painter • believer • beauty chaser • visual psalmist • Georgia native • longtime North Carolinian
Message
North Carolina artist Julia Chandler Lawing synchronizes color and brushstroke to capture the essence of a moment and evoke emotion.
Born in Atlanta, Julia moved to St. Simons Island at age 12. Growing up on the small barrier island in Georgia’s Golden Isles instilled a deep appreciation for nature, light, and the wetland landscape.
Julia earned a BA in Journalism at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (’90), with a minor in art. Exploring various mediums throughout the years, Julia began oil painting at age 45 and knew she had found her calling.
Julia’s work is featured in private collections across the US and Canada, and corporate collections including Towne Bank and Georgia State University College of Law. Her paintings have appeared in public art installations on billboards, window clings, and walls.
When not traveling or painting on location, Julia creates in her studio at ClearWater Arts Center in downtown Concord (visitors welcome).
Statement
My subjects come from memories of rest and play in both new and familiar places. Intimate, happy occasions—beach campfires, lighthouse hikes, lobster boils and sunset sails—are making appearances in my sketchbook and on my easel. Vibrant color is applied via impasto brushstrokes.
“These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but…they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.” —C.S. Lewis, The Weight Of Glory