After studying in Maidenhead and Bristol Julian Perry has lived and worked in East London for more than thirty years. Over this period, he has been committed to using landscape painting as a vehicle for exploring the good and the bad in man’s complex and often disfunctional relationship to the landscape. Brownfield sites, nature reserves, caravan parks and allotment sheds have all been subjects for shows. Recent works have looked at the crisis in British forests due to disease and Climate Change.
Perry enjoys an international reputation. His works are held in numerous public collections, and private collections including HRH the Prince of Wales Collection. He has won major British Council and Arts Council England awards and has a varied ongoing exhibition program. In 2015 his work on coastal erosion impacting Britain’s east coast featured in the Venice Biennale. In 2022 Southampton City Art Gallery staged an exceptional large one person show There Rolls the Deep. The artist was also; featured in the major thematic show Earth at the Royal West of England Academy Bristol, 2022, included in the group exhibition "Entwined" Scunthorpe Visual Arts, 2023, invited to exhibit at "Breaking Ground" Snape Maltings, 2025 and to be included in "Ecological Frontiers" at the Sainbsury Centre UEA in 2025.