WELCOME to The Gallery on Grace Street

Hello. I am glad you stopped by for a visit. I am Jon Julian, and The Gallery on Grace Street is the online showplace for my photography. I have been fascinated by pictures for as long as I can remember, and by photography since age twelve or so. (I will admit also to a fascination with cameras). My work has appeared in the Photographers' Forum Best of Photography Annuals (1990 and 1991) and in annual North Carolina Photographers' shows in Raleigh, North Carolina. During my time as an exhibiting member of Associated Photographers of Winston-Salem (North Carolina) my work hung in a variety of shows and other venues in my area. For several years my work as a musician has left me little time to photograph and print or to prepare showings, but the digital age, as applies to both making photographs and to presenting them for viewing, has opened up some new and refreshing possibilities for me. Many of the photographs were made while on concert tours as a part of my musical career, and one of our concerts a few years ago was a lecture-concert looking into the similarities (as noted by Ansel Adams) between realizing a photographic print from a negative, and a musical peformance from a score. So I find the two forms of expression to be quite complementary and helpful to each other.

Besides the satisfaction of the craft, a primary reason for making photographic prints is simply to share what you saw, with someone else who may also find it pleasing, or interesting - or any of the many reasons that we enjoy looking at pictures. There are at least some of my photographs that one can sit and look into for a period of time, and I think those moments of stillness away from our daily bustle are helpful to us. My work tends toward balance, form, pattern, symmetry, rhythm perhaps. While I admire many kinds of work, those are the qualities that it satisfies me to work with, and often they seem to strike a responsive chord with others. Although the gallery is starting small, I hope to be able to add to it often, both new pictures and many of my best from many years of work. I hope that will mean that you will be able to find pictures you would like to own. As you can see from the examples scattered around this page, photographs can be a wonderful part of the decor of a room, and at least from this site, an affordable one. You will have a piece of "fine art" that has been made to your order and will exist in only limited numbers, and that you can feel good about exhibiting as something special and reflective of your particular taste.

WHAT'S Here, and WHAT'S NEW

Welcome again to the new Gallery on Grace Street site. In the upper lefthand corner there is a link to the music site; the Gallery link there will bring you here. We hope that both sites will now be more user-specific and easier to navigate.
Here at the Gallery on Grace Street, I offer inkjet digital prints of my photographs in two smaller sizes, matted; in a good display size for a larger wall, ready for your mat and frame; and as note-cards, which I call Gallery Cards. In the CARD SHOP you will also find a few Christmas Cards, based on the ones that I make each year to send to our family and friends. The photographs are in the MAIN GALLERY , where a click on a picture will give you a larger version to look at, along with information about the picture - the story of the photograph, or maybe of its locale, or perhaps the equipment I used. OWNING AND CARING for the prints is the place to look for suggestions about keeping your prints looking good over time, about what materials I am currently using, and other pertinent topics. So stay a while and look around, and come back often.

Something to remember as you look through these photographs and cards, is that I print only to order. So whatever you have from my gallery, was in a real sense made for you. There may be a few or many others in existence, depending on the popularity of the scene, but there will always be the sense of the unique about them, and you will know the month and year in which they were made (except in the case of Christmas cards).
That is I thnk all to the good, but it does mean that you neeed to place orders with some lead time if you are giving photographs or sending cards as gifts or as messages for a special occasion. In the case of Christmas cards, you should place your order no later than November 15.

Welcome visitors from my show at the Salem College Fine Arts Center. Please come back often. The show will run from Augustr 25, 2008 - September 26, 2008, with an opening reception for the three shows in that venue on September 14, 2008 from 3:00 - 5:00 pm.