A Mooch approach
Mooch specialises in artwork from emerging and mid career artists. This means we search every nook and cranny to find the best artists and then give them the opportunity to display their work in our gallery and here below.
Mooch has captured more artists who show spectacular creativity, innovative thinking, and are rising stars in the art world.
Julie Dumbarton
Julie grew up roaming the Lake District hills with her family, and readily admits that the many hours spent climbing, walking and scrambling across the stunning landscapes never led her to fully appreciate their splendour. Now these magnificent rural scenes have become her prime subject of exploration, utilising layers of oil paint and a rich wealth of colour to create these fantastical images that visibly pop with vibrancy.
"I like to explore many of the same themes and images, the tension between abstraction and representation, the duel between techniques and moods.
"Colour plays the main role in what I create. A high or low perspective of densely knotted vegetation, a frantic pattern of grained wood or choking greenery that is so visually claustrophobic it has to be rescued by some sense of the landscape it lies in. I see it as bolts of illumination.
"I find it hard to describe what I specifically want to convey through my work. They are made through feelings rather than words. If I was forced to sum up what I want to express, I would describe them as dreamlike and nostalgic yet contemporary. They speak of memories and the endurance of images. Atmospheric and melancholic, they are inconsequential moments that are highly charged.
"As a landscape artist I endeavour to inspire and nurture our love of the natural world. The Scottish Borders and South West Scotland is a wonderful place to live amongst a large community of artists in an area which provides so many of the necessary elements for landscape paintings."
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