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Julia Heseltine Aldeburgh 2003 |
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About the artist
 JULIA HESELTINE was born in London and comes from a family of painters. Her mother, Anna Zinkeisen, and her aunt, Doris Zinkeisen, were well-known artists in the the mid twentieth century. Both excelled as portrait painters and her mother painted several portraits of Julia, including the one shown here of her at the age of fifteeen. Encouraged by her mother, Julia herself started painting at an early age. During the same year that this portrait was painted, she was commissioned by Babers shoe shop to do a mural of fairy tales. In the same year, still only fifteeen, she completed her first portrait commission. The subject was Jonathan Porritt, then aged 4.
 Julia studied at the Byam Shaw and the Royal Academy Schools. From then on, she continued to work as an artist, showing work alongside her husband, the sculptor, Anthony Weller (who died in 1991). Winner of the Medaille D’Argent at the Paris Salon, she is perhaps best known for the portrait she painted of Ted Hughes. She has been commisioned by Sir Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, and the Hon Alan Clark MP.
Although trained as a portraitist Julia is also, in her paintings at least, something of a mystic and she has a particular talent for investing real, meticulously observed scenes with an air of surrealistic mystery. Her painting of nuns on Aldeburgh beach is a good example of this, recording as it does a scene which she actually observed in a manner which gives it something of the feel of a visionary fantasy. |
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