I started a BA degree in photography at the age of 27, after setting up several business but not really feeling passionate about what I was doing. I worked in different fields of photography after graduating but my main passion was documentary and found it hard to make a living from that, so I set up a studio and concentrated on studio work for a several years, and did my own work in my spare time, this led to a self published book titled Work play and no rest, which documented childhood in third world countries and tried to make a difference by donating 20% of the sales to a couple of orphanages. In March 2012 due to a brawl in a bar in Central London and after being assaulted by the doorman I but ended up in prison for a period of two and a half years. This had been the biggest blow to my being, but I took up painting as a form of escapism from the monotonous and tedious regime of prison life, and used the medium as a way to mentally, leave the compounds of my 12x 6 feet cell, by submerging myself on the work at hand. I looked into thoughts, feelings, emotions, conflicts and desires that I experience each day of my two and a half years served in over crowded and basic conditions of the English prison system. I produced around sixty paintings using the prison blankets and have put a HMP clothing tag stating where they were produced on each as one is tagged once in the system. It has become my new passion and a new story telling medium.
MY GOLDEN YEARS PORTRAITS HAVE BEEN SELECTED AS ONE OF THE FINALISTS FOR THE VAA PROEFESSIONAL ARTIST AWARD 2023
Dear Julio,I am delighted to inform you that the Judges have selected you to be one of our VAA Professional Artist Award 2023 Finalists.
As such, your work will be featured in our online show of all Finalists in November. The judges were very impressed with the level and quality of your work – Congratulations! Artwork details: -Sir Nicholas Winton Kinder Transport | 100x100cm | Acrylic on…
A big hello and thank you to my knew followers and existing Linking Page members!I am happy to announce that last week I took part in a two day open studio in A Pan-European Workshop by the European Science Foundation to Address Post-pandemic Challenges Faced by Older People at the University of Dublin to brainstorm and come up with ideas to pass on to policy makers on how to address some of the…
GRANDMOTHER'S PAINTING IS FEATURED ON ONLINE EXHIBITION
GRANDMOTHER’S PAINTING IS FEATURED ON ONLINE EXHIBITION
I am delighted to share the news I recieved yesterday:
Dear Artist,
First of all, thank you for entering our “In the History” Art Competition. We are absolutely delighted with the number and quality of entries – the standard was outstanding and it certainly made it very hard for our curators to shortlist the artworks moving forward to the next phase (this phase, 70 artworks). Your artwork is…
A big hello to you all after a short break from posting and warm welcome to the new followers! I am happy to have completed, the latest addition to my Golden Years series.Man and best friend.
Feed back as alway appreciated.
Happy week.
Julio
I pay tribute to Captain Major Tom Moore and celebrate our eldest generation by inviting people to share their images of their loved ones with a chance to have their photograph turned into a painted portrait.
I pay tribute to Captain Major Tom Moore and celebrate our eldest generation by inviting people to share their images of their loved ones with a chance to have their photograph turned into a painted portrait.
Now, more than ever we need to celebrate the bravery, resilience and strength shown by our elderly population as they struggle with our year-long pandemic.
Almost 30,000 more care home residents in England and Wales died during the coronavirus outbreak than during the same period in 2019, ONS figures show. But only two-thirds were directly attributable to Covid-19. The Office for National…
SUBMIT A PHOTO OF YOUR SENIOR LOVED ONE FOR THE CHANCE TO HAVE THEIR PORTRAIT PAINTED FOR MY GOLDEN YEARS PAINTING SERIES.
Warm wishes to all of you earthlings! Today I have reached the mile stone of being alive for half a century on this beautiful planet and decided to place a call out for every one of you out there to submit a photograph of a special senior person in your life with a few words…
I like to wish you all a great weekend and a big hello to the new followers of my page!
This past Sunday, I was finally united with my adopted pet dog Bumble, who was rescued in Romania and after three days of travelling to the UK this photo was taken when it was handed over to me to take him to his loving forever home 🙂
SIR TOM MOORE IS AWARDED, THE GQ INSPIRATION OF THE YEAR AWARD, AFTER BECOMING THE ELDEST MAN FEATURED IN THE GQ MAGAZINE COVER
SIR TOM MOORE IS AWARDED, THE GQ INSPIRATION OF THE YEAR AWARD, AFTER BECOMING THE ELDEST MAN FEATURED IN THE GQ MAGAZINE COVER
Congratulations to you Sir Captain Tom for becoming the eldest man to be in the cover page of GQ magazine! Since seeing his great achievement last lockdown and bringing the country together, I made the decision to do a portrait in his honour for bringing the country together and raising for the NHS. He was the second work for my series ‘The Golden Years’ to shine a light on the many older people…
Today I have finished my latest painting (Windrush Generation, that feature Paulette Wilson who was affected by the Home Office scandal and became an activist to demand a stop to the abuse that community was experiencing and who sadly pass away this year)
Today I have finished my latest painting (Windrush Generation, that feature Paulette Wilson who was affected by the Home Office scandal and became an activist to demand a stop to the abuse that community was experiencing and who sadly pass away this year) for the Golden Years Series I have been working on just as it was reported In the Guardian.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH - WINDRUSH Paulette Wilson who is on the painting came to the UK at the age of nine and was one of those that they tried to deport, She became one of the biggest activists to pressure the government to admit and stop it!
A big hello to you all!
As we come to the end of #BlackHistory month here in the UK, I thought I share my work in progress for ‘The Golden Years’ series and that shines a light on the Windrush story of the first big immigration of Afro Caribbeans to help rebuild Britain after the second world war, and the scandal that was exposed on Teresa May and her government detaining and deporting a big…
Stop exploiting children to mine cobalt in the DRC This is horrifying and on going! Here is a Change.org petition to Stop exploiting children to mine cobalt in the DRC, please sign and share!
Highlander Painting Auction in Aid of The Lost One Dog Rescue
Highlander Painting Auction in Aid of The Lost One Dog Rescue
Dear friends,
I have donated a painting to auction and raise funds to help a dog rescue project based in Romania that does great work and are struggling to cover the costs of keeping the animals they are caring for, so kindly asking you to please bid for the painting by clicking on the link below:
https://lnkd.in/gPnFAdJ
or to make a small donation by clicking: https://lnkd.in/gADGKJ8…
