Juliette Goodwin

Work samples

Lichen Flower Dance
Baba
Mara's Infinity
Big Pink

About Juliette

My work explores destruction and renewal from the ground up. I consider cycles, decay, and growth, on the earth and in the sky.

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Lichens

The Lichen Paintings explore a slow-growing population of small, often overlooked natural forms. These pieces take months and sometimes years to complete. An experience of measured time and growth runs throughout the work, inviting you into a quiet space where the exquisite natural world is not a blurry periphery, but instead, front and center.

Lichen Flower Dance
Blue-green Lichen
Red Space
Mitten Lichen
Autumn Lichen
Big Pink
Baba

Nuclear Life

The Nuclear Life paintings explore destruction and beauty, mushroom clouds and flowers.

Mara's Infinity
Red Cloud
Cauliflower Cloud
Skirt
Cabbage Cloud
Hybridplume
Icescream Cloud
Fungicloud
Burger
Lunar Cloud

Black Eyed Susans

The Black Eyed Susans project is a series of paintings and drawings devoted to the early, middle and final life stages of the flower. All parts of the cycle are certainly worth documenting, but the final month of a Black Eyed Susan, when the petals change from lemon and Naples yellow, to ochre, then darken to sienna and even deep violet is especially saturated and worthy.

BES 1
Black Eyed Susan

"BES 10" from the Black Eyed Susans project
BES 3
BES 4
BES 5
BES 2
BES 6
BES 7
BES 8
BES 9

Cartographesque

These maps document an expedition of unknown but knowable places. Their discovery happens as they are created. Traditional and unfamiliar techniques are employed to bring these uncharted areas out of the ethers and into our plane of existence.

Eighth Sea
The Franstan Archipelago
New Queen Islands
Sun Diagram
Blue Lake Cluster
Red Box Map
Southward
Half Rose Map
Flower Map
Lunar

Maps and Mandalas

An evolution of the Cartographesque project - moving from external areas and space to to internal, mapping parts of the collective unconscious.

Red Flag Map
Interplanetary
Cloud Blowers

Cloud Blowers
Orange Sea
Heart Map
Boomerang Moons
Pennant Mandala
Yellow Map Worlds

Many Moons

My motivation to interact with the moon is no different than anyone else’s – this glowy, ever-present orb floating in our night sky holds us all, conscious and unconscious. Human rituals surround cyclical lunar appearances and I have created my own ritual in hopes of capturing this unearthly light. It’s difficult to secure in a straight photo, so I make my camera dance -- grabbing a squiggle, a cursive letter or two, or a shape. Iridescent lunar ink burns into the velvety black indigo of a memory card. I think it looks like moonlight.

Embryo Moon
W Moon
Dollar Sign Moon
Vert Moon

"Vert Moon" from the Many Moons series.
Scribble Moon
Magic Marker Moon
Smoky Moon
M Moon
Cursive Moon
Signature Moon

Lunar

Oh the moon.
These paintings, in oil and ink and casein on wooden panels, present captured moments of our glowy moon dancing in the night sky and dancing with multiple versions of itself. With paint.