It was an intensive 3 week study tour of galleries in UK and beyond. I gave myself time to sit and sketch in a small notebook in pencil, sometimes hurriedly at the gallery while other sketches were completed from postcards on various interconnecting trains and buses between galleries such as The Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Courtauld Gallery, The Royal Academy of Art, the new Hermitage Amsterdam, The Stedelijk Museum, The Groeningemuseum, Brugge Museum. Outstanding was Edvard Munch ‘The Modern Eye’ at the Tate.
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.