Joolie Green is Awarded Special Mention:
for the way she has managed to revive the references to art history in a personal style and giving through the color and the “vagueness” of the brush strokes a mixed feeling between ancient and contemporary spirit and indefinite. (Carolina Lio, art critic, Barcelona)
per il modo in cui ha saputo riproporre dei rimandi alla storia dell’arte in uno stile personale e dando attraverso il colore e la “vaghezza” delle pennellate una sensazione mista tra epoca antica e indefinita e spirito contemporaneo. (Carolina Lio, critico d’arte, Barcellona)
Goethe Italian Journey
Oil on Canvas
Artist Statement
“Naples is a paradise. Everyone lives in state of intoxicated self-forgetfulness, myself included…”
Goethe March 16, 1787. Page 198.
These lines and others written by Goethe inspired my painting, by the dream-like quality and color of his text, I am seeing the Bay of Naples through the eyes of Goethe.
Joolie Green’s formal art training began in Life drawing at the Brett Whiteley Studio and several periods at Art Students League in New York followed by National Art School short courses and Life drawing. During the last decade, she undertook several study and sketching trips to US, Japan and Europe. Highlights were exhibiting in New York with fellow Australians, and a solo show At The Vanishing Point. Due to her interest in children and non-profits, she was invited three times in group shows at Sydney Children’s Hospital and for the last six years in successful auctions by Variety for Children. She has held exhibitions overseas in Japan, Nice and Naples, and in 2013 was awarded Winner of Naples Contemporary Art Prize for Sea Fever. She has happily returned to SE Qld to pursue her painting career in a glorious mountain environment.