About the Artist

Julia K Burzon,   Crofton, MD

Quick Bio:
I am an artist of traditional and digital media living in Crofton, Maryland. My involvement in art began at a young age and extended through advanced placement classwork in high school and a photography minor in college. The focus of my formal education is actually not in art but includes rather a BS in Entomology and a MS in Wildlife Biology. However, both were undertaken with an intent that the knowledge gained would have the additional value of informing my work as an artist. My graduate research on the effect of different illustrative media on learning was supported in part by work illustrating multiple Iowa State University Wildlife Extension publications. My more precise work in scientific illustration included illustrations published in scholarly journals, a logo for a multi-state meeting of a national society, and a commission by the Program For Appropriate Technologies in Health (PATH).


Marriage and the a subsequent return to the East coast to work in natural resources management began a significant hiatus from art during which I helped raise a family and briefly owned/operated a small business training dogs. This hiatus also included a resurgence of the chronic treatment-resistant clinical depression that has pursued me through the years. These experiences influence choices in my creative work to this day, to which I returned thanks to art therapy. Reclaiming art as a serious pursuit in 2018. I moved my focus from illustration to fine art, especially contemporary painting.


Artist Statement:
Most of my work to date has been representational, with a tendency toward realism and is so far is largely still lifes, landscapes,and wildlife art, with some figurative work. I favor bright, saturated and contrasting colors, although I am also experimenting with working against that inclination. Art allows me to explore my own psychological and emotional landscape through creative expression and I am keenly interested in both the process and products of that pursuit. Other themes of interest include the experience of women not meeting western societal standards of beauty with regard to body shape, age, or coloration; archetypes of the divine feminine; the place of the human species in the ecology of the planet; as well as ageless commonalities in the human experience such as feelings of connection, expansiveness, and wonder.


Toward the practical end of continuing to learn and to improve skills and techniques, I completed a year-long art blog project in June 2021, which I called “An Apple A Day” (https://appleaday4u.blogspot.com). This blog’s posts documented my daily art practice in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which I explored digital painting within the constraints of producing only apple-themed artworks. The result provided a quirky thread of continuity for followers during these strange times. The blog continues now at a more relaxed pace and with a new theme of “Play,” as I shift from a digital to an analog focus and explore a more impressionistic style through acrylic painting, including more and more plein air work.

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