Julia Baker

I’m a painter, mostly larger scale abstracts. I paint in acrylics, oils and mixed media, and resin. I’m influenced by my natural surroundings-water, sky, my hikes, and even the weather.

I graduated with a BFA in painting from UMass in Amherst, MA. Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg and Nathan Olivera have been the 3 strongest influences on my work.

My work is based on abstractions of my interpretation of what I see. I start my paintings very simply, add lots of detail-drawing, writing, then cover with layers of paint and other collected ephemera. I love working with different aspects of nature, and breaking them down to their simplest forms, like figures, trees, branches, and keeping only the elemental aspects.