Julie Gilbert Pollard
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BoldBrush Recommends: Julie Gilbert Pollard
Biography
Phoenix artist, Julie Gilbert Pollard, paints in oil and watercolor in a fluid, painterly manner. Her painting style, while representational, is colored with her own personal concept of reality. "The eye may see as a camera 'sees', but the mind's eye sees an altered, imagined image, what it wants and hopes to see. It's that illusive image, uniquely mine, that I try to express in my paintings. This amazing world of ours is often a mysterious, sometimes frightening, place, but filled with scenes and subjects that excite my eye and imagination! The magical allure of the natural world, and my reverence for it, compel me to attempt to capture its essence on canvas or paper."
Enjoying an extensive career in art, Pollard is the author of three North Light Books: Discover Oil Painting (2016), Watercolor Unleashed (2013) and Brilliant Color (oil & acrylic, 2009), plus nine videos for ArtistsNetwork.com (three Watercolor Unleashed, four Oil Painting Unleashed and two Acrylic Unleashed). Additional publications include various articles and book inclusions including Watercolor Artist, Summer 2024 Issue-Painting Spot Column; Splash 23 (June 2022); The Art of Watercolour Magazine, Issue 36 (2019); Watercolor Artist Magazine (2021, 2018 & 2013); Splash 18 (2017); Acrylic Works 3 (2016); Art Journey America Landscapes (2012).
She has given instruction in watercolor and oil since 1985 in numerous venues such as Art Travel Italy, in Tuscany, La Romita School of Art, in Umbria, Italy; Cheap Joe's Art Workshops, in North Carolina; Saanich Peninsula Arts and Crafts Society, in Sidney, B.C., Canada; and Vale do Lobo, in Portugal. Current 2025-2026 venues include online and in-person with, among others, Madeline Island School of the Arts, West, Santa Fe Campus (March 2025), Scottsdale Artists' School, Hudson River Valley Art Workshops, in upstate New York, (September 2026).
A frequent award winner, Pollard's oils and watercolors have hung in numerous juried and gallery exhibits. Most notable awards: Honor Finalist Bold Brush Painting Competition (February 2025); Best Impressionistic Painting-Best of America, National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society (2012); Best Use of Light & Color in Best of America, National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society (2011).
Pollard holds four signature memberships: National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society, Arizona Watercolor Association, San Diego Watercolor Society and Plein Air Painters of Arizona. Her work is included in many private and corporate collections and is represented in Arizona by Raku Gallery, in Jerome, and Sedona Arts Center Gallery, in Sedona.
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