Welcome to the Julia Ball website.  Julia died in early 2025, aged 94. She worked until the last few years of her life on an increasingly ambitious scale. This website now acts as a portal to those encountering her work for the first time or wishing to know more about this exceptional and prolific artist. 

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Julia’s work explores colour and light mainly through oils but she also worked extensively as a printmaker and produced many etchings, drawings and watercolours. Her approach was meticulous and meditative, returning again and again to particular landscapes to explore them in all weathers and seasons. The journey towards abstraction began with close observation - representational paintings and drawings from which she discerned the essence of colour and colour relationships. 

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She lived and taught art in Cambridge for many decades, was active in the women’s movement, marching twice to Greenham Common and collaborated with many local poets and artists.