Interior Eastern Avenue

This painting started to form in my mind about ten years ago when i was staying with David Medalla in Berlin. He and his friend Adam collected all kinds of strange ephemera and I became ratrher facinated by a small cardboard architectural model which, i assume, they had found in flea market. Sometimes very simple pictures have a long long gestation.

Doubt is the Privilege of the Believer

Oil on Canvas
18x24

From a Cutting

Oil on Canvas
18x24

Oil on Canvas. I had to pay particular attention to the medal ribbons as they represent the current the recent Iraq and current Afghan Campaigns

Untitled

Etching

Untitled
Oil on Canvas
18x24 inches
Completed 2007

Biography

Julian Mitchell was born in 1968 in Reading. Before undertaking a degree in painting at Wolverhampton Polytechnic he studied Drawing and Printmaking at Heatherey’s School of Art in Chelsea. Paul Caldwell and Daphne Todd were both tutors.
During his time at Wolverhampton he concentrated on the traditional genres of landscape, the figure and still life. At that time, this was a rather provocative choice. The prevailing feeling in many British arts schools at that time, was that the canon of classical painting was morally and aesthetically suspect. Mitchell was one of a small group who were trying to find a way of making an art that was at once modern, informed by the classical tradition, and accessible to the ordinary viewer.