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Simon Trapnell, Director of the Nature in Art Museum in England, writes in the foreword of an art book showcasing 300 plein-air paintings, sketches and drawings by Julie Askew: "Art, like travel, can prick the conscience, sow the seed of awareness and nurture appreciation of our natural and cultural heritage.  Put art and travel together and you have an intoxicating, challenging and inspiring mix.  This is part what makes this book so irrisistible."

We couldn't have said it better ourselves in describing the work of this respected British animal and landscape painter.  "A Voyage Round The World In Paintings: The Art Of Julie Askew" is beautiful and entertaining.  It literally provides a visual chronicle of Askew's artistic adventures around the globe and, for collector or artist, provides insight into how Askew approaches the known and the exotic.  She has deft ability in quickly gathering field information and then creating easel paintings that speak to a deeper command of her subjects.  It's debatable whether Askew is more talented painting wildlife or the human figure, ginning up a finished naturalist sketch in her field journal or dashing off a well executed wash of watercolor over line drawings.  Every page demonstrate's Askew's diversity. 

Short on text (a good thing), "A Voyage Round The World In Paintings" makes pit stops on every continent, save Antarctica, and ventures forth from the mountains of North America to the tropics, the South Pacific islands, India, Egypt, the southern horn of Africa and northward...