Juliana is an amazing illustrator/designer from Toronto, so it's no wonder I kept running into her work everywhere! I really love her mixed media works as well, and I chose to include two of her book projects here, because--well, I like collections/series of collages quite a lot. I definitely look forward to seeing more collage work from her.
Juliana Neufeld
www.juliananeufeld.com
Toronto, Canada
Q: Describe your work in 10 words or less.
A: Nostalgic. Busy. Mid conversation. Optimistic
Q: What do you like to work with (magazines, photographs, vintage)? Be specific!
A: Clips from 50's advertisements. Old comic books and National Geographics. Postcards found in antique shops and flea markets. Old wallpaper samples. My own photographs.
Q: How long have you been creating collages and what made you start?
A: I found a book called The journey is the destination: The journals of Dan Eldon, in early highschool. The book changed the way I thought about art. To me, it justified the desire to create art using work that wasn't necessarily mine. An organized chaos within the work that still exhilarates me. The works of Sabrina Ward Harrison... also a huge influence. I guess I started making journals at the beginning of high school. Right after I picked up Dan Eldon's book.
Q: Are you solely an artist, or do you work in another profession?
A: Blessed to work solely as an artist. I do commercial illustration and design to help pay the bills, but none of the work I've done has curtailed my creativity of made me question my choices. All the work I've done I would be proud to put in a portfolio.
Q: Do you have any formal art training?
A: I have a Bachelors degree in Photographic Arts. Other than that, I'm self trained.
Q: Explain your favourite techniques.
A: I don't have a favorite techinique that I rely on, though I suppose to cross my work into a digital realm, with a greater frequency than in the past. I love the visual juxtaposition of old with new. Shiny, rough. Vintage and modern. And the computer allows me to explore this to a greater degree. I might paint a backround with watercolour, place an illustration or an old photograph on top, scan the image and add text or digital illustration that I can then place digitally. Though I'm a traditionalist at heart, I'm willing to see where the digital realm can expand my work in bigger and more exciting directions.
Q: Describe your favourite piece ever created.
A: My friend found an old painting on the street out side of my house. When he came to visit, he brought the painting up with him, thinking I might like it on its own. It was an old painting of a Dutch landscape, with a nice gold tinged wooden frame attached. I didn't think about what I would do. I just started painting. Thirty minutes later, I had a melancholy cat in a rain suit with umbrella, walking through the landscape.
Q: What other artists do you admire?
A: Barry McGee, Margaret Killgallen, Sabrina Ward Harrison, Sally Mann, Maurice Sendack, Basquiat, Dan Eldon.
Thanks Juliana!
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