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  Crimson and Gold
  
  Oil on canvas
  Art dimensions: 24" x 30"
  $1,400
  
  
  

  

  Midnight Rising
  
  Oil on canvas
  Art dimensions: 18" x 36"
  $1,300
  
  
  

  

  Merging
  
  Oil on canvas
  Art dimensions: 24" x 36"
  $1,650
  
  
  

  

  Turquoise Lake
  
  Oil on canvas
  Art dimensions: 24" x 30"
  $1,400
  
  
  

  

  Unreachable
  
  Oil on canvas
  Art dimensions: 18" x 18"
  $650
  
  
  

  

  Sea of Cortez: Dusk Ribbons
  
  Oil on canvas
  Art dimensions: 18" x 18"
  $650
  
  
  

  

  Turquoise Volcano Lake [diptych]
  
  Oil on canvas
  Art dimensions: 24" x 18" each
  $1,650
  
  
  

  

  Sea of Cortez 1
  
  Oil on canvas
  Art dimensions: 18" x 18"
  $650
  
  
  

  

  Sea of Cortez 2
  
  Oil on canvas
  Art dimensions: 18" x 18"
  $650
  
  
  

  

  Sea of Cortez 4
  
  Oil on canvas
  Art dimensions: 18" x 18"
  $650
  
  
  

  

  Dark Cloud Bearing Rain
  
  Oil on canvas
  Art dimensions: 18" x 36"
  $1,300
  
  
  

  

  Quilt Boundaries
  
  Oil on canvas
  Art dimensions: 18" x 36"
  $1,300
  
  
  

  

  Sea of Cortez #1
  
  Watercolour on paper
  Art dimensions: 9" x 12.25"
  $250 Framed
  
  
  

  

  Sea of Cortez #4
  
  Watercolour on paper
  Art dimensions: 9" x 12.25"
  $250 Framed
  
  
  

  

  Sea of Cortez #9
  
  Watercolour on paper
  Art dimensions: 10.25" x 14"
  $295 Framed
  
  
  

  

  San Jose del Cabo, Sea of Cortez: Blue Waters
  
  Watercolour on paper
  Art dimensions: 7" x 10.25"
  $200 Framed
  
  
  

  

  San Jose del Cabo, Sea of Cortez: Small Beachscape #1
  
  Watercolour on paper
  Art dimensions: 7" x 10"
  $85
  
  

  

  San Jose del Cabo, Sea of Cortez: Small Beachscape #2
  
  Watercolour on paper
  Art dimensions: 7" x 10"
  $85
  
  

  

  San Jose del Cabo, Sea of Cortez: Small Beachscape #3
  
  Watercolour on paper
  Art dimensions: 7" x 10"
  $85
  
  

  

  The Idea of Color
  Julia Kottal
  
  In stock
  
  Paperback
  $36 $34
  
  
  

  abstract, landscape, scenic, gestural, vibrant, natural, nature, soothing, floral, botanical, tropical, representational, calming, contemporary, textural
  
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  Lakeside Forest #3
  
  Watercolor on paper
  
  JKO190321C

  

  Nightscape
  
  Oil on canvas
  
  JKO190327C

  

  Landscape Conversation #4
  
  Oil on canvas
  
  JKO190326C

  

  Landscape Conversation #3
  
  Oil on canvas
  
  JKO190325C

  

  Landscape Conversation #2
  
  Oil on canvas
  
  JKO190324C

  

  Landscape Conversation #1
  
  Oil on canvas
  
  JKO190323C

  

  

  Beachscape with Sandy Cliffs
  
  Watercolor on paper
  
  JKO190311C

  

  Beachscape with Green Cliffs
  
  Watercolor on paper
  
  JKO190313C

  

  Beachscape with Brown Cliffs
  
  Watercolor on paper
  
  JKO190316C

  

  Beachscape with Pink Cliffs
  
  Watercolor on paper
  
  JKO190314C

  

  Reflections
  
  Oil on canvas
  
  JKO150302C

  

  Spring Fields
  
  Oil on canvas
  
  JKO150306C

  

  Night Dreams
  
  Oil on canvas
  
  JKO161004C

  
• ​Biography
  Julia is a native Mid-Westerner, born in Michigan. She has studied art in Florida, Maryland and California before moving to Iowa in 1992. She has a B.A., with painting as her emphasis, from Coe College. She has work in various collections nationally, including Alliant Energy, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Coe College, Kirkwood Community College, University Miami of Ohio, Millhiser Smith, Terry, Lockridge and Dunn, and United Fire Group. She is currently a full time painter.
  

  Statement
  "​Viewing and painting a land “sweep” or landscape, I express myself through personal reflection. Memories of the past infuse my current vision and I willingly allow the two to combine—past and present mental visions, a blended perspective into my voice. This is how and why I paint landscapes that have elements of times past, but in abstraction. I love to see, as I hope the viewer does, a “surprise” or a moment that happens in my paintings, either while painting or after completion. It is important to me to keep some sense of traditional order in the landscape, but I also like to let the paint take on a life of its own and lead me to an end result that can be unexpected and seductive.
  
  Plowed rows in fields are reminiscent of a past growing up in rural areas of the Midwest. Retracing routes to nearby towns and farms through endless fields of grain and dirt, being hypnotized by patterns of corn and soybean fields whirling by, and finding hidden objects in clouds and vistas--these are images etched in my brain that continuously return to me.
  
  ​My work begins with a feeling of a landscape but progresses to a color exploration and a desecration or falling apart of the composition, letting go the prescribed visual references to a landscape and allowing me (and the viewer) to wander and explore. I use a palette knife to apply the oils to give a tactile quality and enhance the painterly and gesture activity."
  

  Previous Exhibitions
  

  Leading Ladies - 2016

  Endless Planes - 2020

  The Idea of Color - 2024

  Video

  Coming soon
  
• Education
  
  B.A. Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
  Concentration,oil painting
  
  Non-degree Solano College, Fairfield, California 
  Additional college classes for non-degree including:
  Sculpture, Raku pottery, Navajo weaving and Perspective drawing
  
  A.A. Polk College, Winter Haven, Florida
  
  Exhibits/Shows
  
  2017
  Art at the Lincoln Cafe
  Mt. Vernon, IA
  July 
  
  
  2016
  "Leading Ladies" 
  Gilded Pear Gallery
  Cedar Rapids, IA
  
  "New Work"
  Guaranty Bank & Trust
  Cedar Rapids, IA
  September
  
  Quad City Arts
  Art @ the Airport
  Cedar River Artisans Group show
  September - October
  
  
  2015
  Coe College Alumni Exhibit
  Cherry Building, Cedar Rapids, IA
  October
  
  "Midwest Summer; Light and Warmth"
  Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
  June - August
  
  Artisan's Sanctuary
  Cedar Rapids, IA
  Cedar River Artisans Group Show
  "Bindings" 
  April 
  
  2012
  "Lure of the Local"
  Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
  Feburary - May 
  
  Featured Artist, Mercy Medical Center
  Cedar Rapids, IA
  April - May
  
  Featured Artist, Guaranty Bank
  Cedar Rapids, IA
  May - June
  
  Legion Arts, CSPS
  Cedar River Artisan's Group Show
  "Guitar Voices"
  June - August
  
  Quad City Arts Center
  Rock Island, Ill
  Group Show CRA
  June - Aug
  
  Lowe Art Center
  Marion, IA
  Group Show CRA
  September - November
  
  "ARTSTOP"
  Cedar River Artisan's
  "Guitar Voices" 
  Valley Junction
  Des Moines, IA
  September
  
  Blackhawk Community College
  Moline, ILL
  Group Show CRA
  November - December
  
  
  2011
  Featured Aritst, Iowa Artisan's Gallery, Iowa City, IA
  Figgi "Salon" Art Museum Group Show: "Cedar River Artisan's"
  
  2010
  Juried "Small Works" Show, Chait Callery, Iowa City, IA
  NewBo Arts Festival Group show: "Cedar River Artisan's"
  Quad City Arts 'Art at the Airport exhibition'
  Juried "Artist Invitational" 
  
  2009
  Juried "Small Works" Show, Chait Gallery, Iowa City, IA
  University of Iowa Theatre Arts, 
  Summer Repertory Theatre Building Exhibit,
  "Artist Invitational"
  Metro Gallery Tour,Campbell Steele Gallery, Marion,IA,
  "New Work" artist invitation. 
  
  2008 
  University of Iowa, President's home tour, "Selected Artist Works"
  Juried "Small Works" Show, Chait Gallery, Iowa City, IA 
  'Artist Invitational' Alliant Energy Woman's Symposium, Featured Artist, Madison, WI
  Coe College Art Department Alumni Show, Cedar Rapids, IA
  
  
  2007
  Marion Home Tour, 'Selected Works'
  Iowa Artisan's Gallery, Iowa City Featured artist
  'Artist Invitational' Alliant Energy Woman's Symposium, Featured artist, Cedar Rapids,IA
  'Gallery Walk',Campbell Steele Gallery, Marion IA,Featured artist
  
  2006
  'Gallery Walk', Campbell Steele Gallery, Marion, IA
  Featured artist
  
  2005
  'Gallery Walk', Campbell Steele Gallery, Marion, IA
  Featured artist
  B.A. Senior Thesis Exhibition, Coe College,
  Oil painting
  
  2003
  Student Symposium 'Fields of Colour', Coe College
  Oil painting
  
  Awards
  2002 Susan Lawson Bauma Prize in Art, Coe College, painting 
  2003 Susan Lawson Bauma Prize in Art, Coe College, painting 
  
  Bibliography/Publications
  2010 Membership, juried Iowa Arts Council Artist Roster
  2008 Emerge Midwest Art 'Zine' October Issue, juried 
  2007 Cedar Rapids Gazette, Iowa Press Citizen, 
  The Daily Palette, School of Art and Art History, 
  University of Iowa, dailypalette.uiowa.edu/page2.php
  2003 Cedar Rapids Gazette, 'Community' April 18, 
  Coe College Student Research Symposium 
  Student Symposium 'Fields of Colour', Coe College
  Oil painting
  
  Gallery Representation
  Gilded Pear, Cedar Rapids, IA 
  Iowa Artisans Gallery, Iowa City, IA
  East End Art, Mount Vernon, IA
  
  Life experience:
  Arts Director, Eastern Iowa Arts Director, Cedar Rapids, IA, 2009-2013
  Facilitator/Artist/educator, Eastside Arts Academy, Cedar 
  Rapids IA, 2007-2009
  Cedar River Artisan's : Collaborative Art Group 
  Adjudicator, Reflections Artist Competition 
  CRMA docent 1996-98
  Art presenter, Grant Wood Elementary School 1993- 1997
  Design and layout for Mercy Hospital Auxiliary publications, 1993-1997
  Logo design and layout, St.Lukes Hospital Showcase
  House 64 pg. publication, 1992 and 1994 editions 
  
  Collections
  Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA Permanent Collection
  University, Miami of Ohio, Clarinet Studio
  Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, IA
  Terry, Lockridge and Dunn, Iowa City, IA
  Millhiser Smith
  Miami of Ohio
  United Fire Group
  Cabinet Studio and Lighting
  Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA
  Alliant Energy, Cedar Rapids, IA, (Public Art,associated with Eastern Iowa Arts Academy)