June Stratton is a self-taught oil painter born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1959.
June Stratton at a glance
- Born: 1959, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Nationality: American
- Known for: Quiet, meditative paintings of the female figure in nature
- Medium: Oil paint, gold leaf and handmade plaster casts
- Style: Photorealism and reductive tonalism
- Based in: Atlanta and near Savannah, Georgia
- Collections: The U.S. Department of State and the Federal Reserve of Minneapolis
- Website: junestratton.com
“June Stratton combines photorealism and reductive tonalism to create quiet meditative paintings with a strong sense of color and composition.”
June Stratton studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California, and began her art career in Pioneer Square, the art district of Seattle, where she was the administrative director of a successful gallery and atelier, and she now lives in both Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia.
June Stratton’s studio looks over salt-water marshes a few steps from her home in a lush sub-tropical coastal area near Savannah, Georgia, and her work incorporates the female figure with natural landscapes, using gold leaf and handmade plaster casts created from the organic environment surrounding her studio and treasures she has collected over years.
June Stratton describes her work as realism that captures fleeting moments that have to do with light, and she isolates aspects of a place, then with sensitivity to form and composition she creates meditative spaces through the suspension of moments, combining photorealism and reductive tonalism.
June Stratton’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in galleries and museums such as the Whatcom Museum of History and Art in Washington, and her work is owned by many private and public collections such as The Federal Reserve of Minneapolis, The U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., and Texaco Incorporated of New York.
- Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1959.
- She is self-taught as an oil painter.
- Her studio overlooks salt-water marshes near Savannah, Georgia.
- She incorporates gold leaf and handmade plaster casts in her work.
- Her work has been published in American Art Collector and Beautiful Bizarre Magazine.
June Stratton’s recent works incorporate gold leaf and handmade plaster casts, with large paintings containing as many as 30 individual casts which are then gilded or painted with oil, and her work is collected by art collectors and art galleries internationally, including recent solo shows with Robert Lange Studios in South Carolina.
June Stratton’s work has been featured in American Artist, and her work has been collected by the Bennett Collection of Women Realists, Texaco Incorporated, the U.S. Department of State, Bank of America, The Mayo Clinic, and The St Regis Hotel, reflecting her broad appeal and the recognition of her unique artistic vision.
Art Category Fact: Fresco-secco, also known as dry fresco, is a technique where pigments mixed with a binder are applied to a dry plaster surface, and it was used in ancient Roman and Renaissance painting, with artists like Michelangelo and Raphael employing it in their works, and contemporary artists like June Stratton use it to create textured, layered surfaces in their paintings.
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” — Edgar Degas
You can see more of June Stratton’s paintings on her official website, junestratton.com.