Artwork > Julia Turner

Julia Turner, jewelry, seed bead, enamel jewelry, wood jewelry, OOAK, woman artist, deer isle maine
Steel, vitreous enamel, oxidized sterling silver chain
Julia Turner, jewelry, seed bead, woman artist, deer isle maine
2017
Julia Turner Enamel Jewelery The Turtle Gallery Deer Isle Maine
Powder coated steel, oxidized sterling silver, enamel
2017
Julia Turner, jewelry, seed bead, wood jewelry, OOAK, woman artist, deer isle maine
Steel, Japanese glass delica beads
2017
Julia Turner, jewelry, seed bead, wood jewelry, OOAK, woman artist, deer isle maine
Japanese glass delica beads, Czech glass beads, steel cable, sterling silver clasp

Julia Turner creates graphic and sculptural pieces that are strong and subtle, beautifully crafted and a pleasure to live with. Her award-winning work has been exhibited internationally and has been included in numerous publications. She has taught widely, most recently at California College of the Arts and the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts. Her studio is currently a part of the Heath Collective and occupies a unique industrial space in San Francisco’s Mission District. Julia Received her M.F.A. in 1995.

Julia’s work is driven by a continuous exploration of materials and techniques from diverse disciplines. Her studio tables are piled with small experiments in form and surface which she arranges and re-arranges, finding tensions, creating compositions, moving ideas forward and developing the strongest impulses into finished work. She freely combines everything that interests her; mixing hot and cold connections, carving and fabricating, wood and gold, traditional enamel and industrial paint. Her work reflects a fascination with the boundary between the human-built and natural worlds, the beauty of accidental collaborations between them, and our often funny ideas about what we can and can’t control.