Based in Cornwall, Jules Greaves paints playfully. She loves colour and works between wild brights and a calmer more subdued palette, often managing to blend the two. Her art is quirky and unique, sparking childlike joy.
Greaves fell in love with making art when she was seven, when her ceramic mouse -- with pipe cleaner twirly tail and whiskers -- was chosen for a show in Croydon. She later studied Fine Art (Hons.) at University College Falmouth. After exploring many various careers, she returned to art, teaching ceramics and mixed media techniques. However, the call of the paint was too strong, and Greaves soon turned to painting.
The artist describes her style of working as childlike, or naive and joyful. She employs urgent ‘scrubby’ brushwork,' sometimes using pencil marks to annotate or describe her pieces. Greaves takes her inspiration from daily life, the domestic and natural, incorporating repeated motifs and patterns from the world around her.