Paintings, watercolours and wood engravings by Julia Wroughton.

An Tobar is delighted to exhibit a new body of work by Julia Wroughton. Julia has spent most of her life on Mull. With her first husband Alastair MacDonald, she started the Inniemore School of Painting. Her experience of an island landscape has inevitably permeated her work since the early days. Her work is concerned with responding to the poetry of place.

“Although I have spent most of my life on the Isle of Mull, when I wake up in the morning and look out to sea I am always surprised to find the islands still there. … I paint bits of cliff, old buildings, weathered gates, shadowy interiors and still lives. I lose the subject and find it again. Perhaps this is something to do with the dramatic or fugitive light.”

Julia Wroughton was educated mainly in Scotland, but studied at Gloucester School of Art and The Royal College of Art in London. Whilst at Colchester she was taught wood engraving by John O’Connor. Julia has exhibited regularly in Bristol, the Royal Academy in London, Edinburgh and Glengorm Castle. This is her first solo show at An Tobar.

The exhibition is accompanied by a small publication of wood engravings by Julia Wroughton with poems by Bruce Killeen.

Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 11th April, 6 - 8pm