Julius Olsson had no formal art training but learnt to paint in London and on various journeys abroad. He moved to St. Ives in 1896, where he developed a reputation as a painter of landscape and stormy seascapes. The landscape of Cornwall, particularly the rugged coastline, was his principal source of inspiration

In many ways, Olsson, like other painters of his generation, found himself poised between conflicting interests. His small oil studies of the sea are astonishingly impressionistic, showing an intense luminosity and a dramatic handling of paint. The colours have a wonderful afterglow and there are no strong tonal contrasts. In his more finished works, however, these aspects of his painting become more subdued.

Archaeology - Art - Ethnology - Geology - Natural History - Social History
Worcestershire Regiment - Worcestershire Yeomanry