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Chronology |
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Stibnite (1978) Charcoal drawing, 22” x29” |
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Deep Dissection (1979) Drawn in the Royal College of Surgeons, Part of the Late Professor Phillip Rieff Collection Exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art 1996 The collection was on the US art market 2008 |
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A Landscape Foreground (1980) 4’x3’ pencil Exhibited at the RA Summer Show 1982
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Sand Formations (1983) Watercolour, 22” x 29” (taken from a desert rose)
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Paradise Garden (1994) Watercolour, 4’ x 5’ Worked on for a total of nine months, this painting sold at Julia’s First One Woman show at the Maas Gallery |
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Cardoon Leaves (1996) Watercolour, 22” x 29”
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Trees in Culford Park(1999) Watercolour, 22” x 29”
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Sunflower (1997) Pastel , 29” x 22”
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Two year Artist-in-Residency at Culford School, Bury St Edmunds where she execute several commissions as part of the Historic Bridge and Lake Conservation Project. Exhibits for the first time at the New English Art Club exhibition, the Mall Galleries. One woman show at the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital as part of their Hospital Arts Project |
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Exhibits as part of the cooperative group “Artworks” at Blackthorpe Barn, Bury St Edmunds, The First of seven artist-in-residencies for Swan Hellenic Cruise Line. Her visits to the Amazon, Borneo and especially Iceland inspire her further in her Natural Forms theme. One woman show at the Haus No 3 Gallery, Frickenhausen, Germany. Exhibits for the first time in the New Grafton Gallery. Takes part in the “Alan Sorrell Centenary Exhibition at the Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend |
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Prairie (2003) (dried sunflower Oil 4’ x 3’
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Visits Covehithe on the Suffolk Coastline for the first time, and the first ideas for her “Erosion” series germinate, which links her Natural Forms theme to the environmental issue of global warming. Exhibits for the first time at Waterhouse & Dodd, Cork Street, London in their exhibition: “New Contemporary Landscape” . She also demonstrates for the first time in the painting tent at Art In Action, Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire. Exhibits in “Branching Out” together with works in the Arts Council Collection at Nature in Art, Gloucestershire, as well as in “Roderick Barrett and his students” at the Chappel Gallery. |
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Lily (2004) Watercolour 22” x 29”
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Born Westcliff-on-Sea, the daughter of artists Elizabeth and Alan Sorrell Sells her first work, an embroidery picture Exhibits in the first of a series of eight Sorrell Family exhibitions lasting until 1987. Studies Embroidery at Goldsmiths’s College, London under Constance Howard, and is strongly influenced by her drawing tutor Betty Swanwick RA. Following the death of Alan Sorrell in 1974, she gradually starts to concentrate more on drawing and painting. |
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1955
1968 1970
1973-6
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Her portrait of Baron Ramsey is unveiled in the NPG’s Recent Acquisitions exhibition Julia exhibits for the first time in the RWS Open Show Marries Ian Sanders and moves to Ceredigion, Wales. Her first son Henry is born, but she continues to work alongside bringing up her family. Her self-portrait and the portrait of Lord Ramsey go on tour as part of the Arts Council “Portrait 80’s” exhibition. Her first painting with an overtly environmental message “Protect our Trees” is purchased by the Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend. Her second son Edward is born.
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1982 1983 1984 1985
1987
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First exhibits in the RA Summer Show , a drawing entitled “A Girl opening the curtain” purchased by the Annie Hugill Fund. Studies drawing and painting as a postgraduate student at the Royal Academy School under Professor Peter Greenham and tutors Roderick Barrett, Norman Blamey, Olwyn Bowey, Antony Eyton, John Lessore, Denis Lucas and Betty Swanwick. |
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1975
1978-81 |
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1980
1981-2 |
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Her self-portrait (right) gains second prize in the first National Portrait Gallery Portrait Award. She is sent to Durham by the National Portrait Gallery to paint Lord Ramsey, the ex-Arch Bishop of Canterbury. Her first year after leaving the RA Schools is spent mainly on portrait commissions, but she begins to develop her “Natural Forms” theme drawing coral, rocks, shells plants and trees. |
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1993
1994 |
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Four of her botanical studies are used to promote Flora Britannica, edited by Richard Mabey, and one of her textile designs is used to promote Common Ground’s Apple Day events. Her first one woman show at the Maas Gallery, Clifford Street, London. Her drawing of a rare black poplar tree is used to promote the Daily Telegraph/Tree Council ‘Black Poplar Hunt’. |
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1990
1991 |
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Exhibits in “Family Likeness, the Cleary ”Gallery, Canterbury Festival, as well as in the Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Competition and her natural forms “Cabbage Root” is purchased from the RA by Prof. Phillip Rieff (Emeritus Benjamin Franklin Lecturer, University of Philadelphia) upon the advice of his friend Evelyn Joll, the chairman of Agnews. Moves with her family to Norfolk Produces the first of a series of promotional textile designs for the new environmental charity Plantlife, which is worn on Television by David Bellamy |
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1996
1997 |
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Ten drawings and paintings which form part of the Phillip Rieff Collection are exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Exhibits in the Cheltenham Open Drawing Competition. She is the Artist-in-Residence on a cruise ship for the first time, the Black Watch of Fred Olsen Exhibits at the John Davies Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold |
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1997-9
1998 |
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2000-6
2001 2003 2004 |
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2005
2006 |
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2007
2008
2009
2010 |
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Waterhouse & Dodd show her work at the 20/21 International Art Fair at the Royal College of Art. “A Second Look at Natural Forms” is published in the July issue of “The Artist”, and she is again asked to demonstrate at Art in Action. Travels to Iceland for a two week solo-trip to draw glaciers and volcanic rock formations. She camps for a week near the largest ice cap in Europe. Elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. Joint show at the Chappel Galleries together with her Husband Ian Sanders’s Tree Tables, a solo show at New Hall College, Cambridge. Elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. Julia’s work returned to Southern Germany for an RI exhibition at Landau in Platz. Julia exhibits at the RBA Mall Galleries show for the first time as a member. She is also elected to the Norwich 20 and Artworks. She returns to Art In Action as a demonstrator in the painting tent.
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