“I mine the earth for a few metaphors by which I can see Heaven” — Andy Squyers

My art is about the soul’s longing for our true eternal home, and the glimpses we catch of it here and now.

I have always drawn, but began oil painting at age 45 and was immediately attracted to its viscosity and the challenge of laying it down in an impressionistic manner using beautiful colors. My subjects come from my own memories of time well spent with family and traveling to both new and familiar places. Favorite muses include my four daughters and our times at rest and at play.

My love for the wetland landscape derives from growing up on a small barrier island in coastal Georgia, Saint Simons Island, at eye level with the constant tidal changes of the intercoastal creeks and marshes. They, alongside the centuries-old live oaks dripping with Spanish moss, are a subtle reminder that we are connected to forces greater than ourselves; that beyond our hurried everyday lives we can hear a faint call, pulling us to a vastly richer life of serenity and joy. Beauty gently awakens our hearts to the desire deep within, to know and to be known.

Intimate, happy occasions such as beach campfires, lighthouse hikes, ocean play, rocky shores, lobster boils, sailboats and sunsets are making appearances in my sketchbook and on my easel.

“These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but…they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.” —C.S. Lewis, The Weight Of Glory

I named this painting of a mountain stream off the Blue Ridge Parkway, Julian Price Park, after the scripture: "Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you" (Luke 6:38). It is my offering of thanks for the many ways in which abundance overflows in my life.

$2,100
A link to purchase may be found here: https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/julia-chandler-lawing/artwork/running-over
or the interested buyer may contact me directly for other payment options

I sell my artwork (mainly oil paintings) online and at my studio in Concord, NC.
https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/julia-chandler-lawing
https://julialawing.faso.com
studio by appointment: ClearWater Arts Center & Studios, 223 Crowell Dr NW, Concord, NC 28025