Art with a Story
My creative practice manifests the spiritual and emotional into the physical. Working in painting, drawing and fiber art, my thoughts, feelings and experience become solid, tangible and visceral. They hearken back to the primal urge we humans have to create, to take from our mind and memories and make something real. Analog in a digital world, my marks are the marks of time, my forms and shapes a record of things gone; my colors are fleeting thoughts, my stitches are emotional maps of my life.
By engaging with the natural world through art, I ask if art needs to reflect our digital society, or if it can exist outside of it, in connection with nature. What if art was unapologetically feminine, beautiful and emotional? What if art gave you the same experience as meditation or walking in the woods? What if art was a place to diffuse, rather than jar your senses?
About the Artist
Born in Pueblo, Colorado, Julia Rymer is a multi-media artist and art educator. Her works evoke her emotional experience of the natural world, while investigating her relationship to time, history, nature's cycles, and Jewish practice and heritage.
She holds an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute, and a BFA in Painting from the University of Denver School of Art & Art History. Her 25-year art career spans numerous solo and group exhibitions and inclusion in many corporate, museum and private collections throughout the United States. As a founding member of the Seed Sister Artist Collective since 2020, her work has been featured in many international group exhibitions in Europe and Asia. Past artist residencies include the Children’s Museum of Denver and Createspace Wales.
Julia has an extensive background in art education from the K-12 to university level and is a faculty member at the Curtis Center for the Arts in Greenwood Village, Colorado, teaching child and adult art classes. An avid language learner, Julia recently earned her B1 Zertifikat in German from the Goethe Institut. She lives in the foothills outside of Denver, Colorado, with her husband and two children.