“Julia Brooker creates beautiful paintings. Julia captures colour and light on the reflective aluminium surface. These paintings herald the arrival of spring, sunshine, and light. They have an exuberant and exciting energy.”
“Brooker has turned her metal surfaces into an active collaborator in her play with light, the surfaces dissolve and liqueify …. like a pond sparkling with drops of summer's light.”
“The reflectiveness of the aluminium, the transparent and crystalline acrylics, can be experienced as a distraction, a white noise... The paintings articulate and negotiate the constituents of memory, its bittersweet discontents, its pain and pleasures”
“Julia Brooker's paintings radiate light and colour. They are sensual and decorative, clean and modern – and deceptively simple. …….they are beautiful objects. But Brooker's paintings touch us too. They appeal at another level, bear long contemplation and stay with us. They are evocative and deeply felt.”