Julie Ann Haines is a Belfast born painter and printmaker now based in Dublin and a member of Graphic Studio Dublin. She depict quiet unremarkable corners of urban life close to where she lives. She finds a meditative stillness in the sunlit corners and dense shadows that envelop private and overlooked spaces. They are just outside the busy thoroughfare of daily life and she find them where light falls on a pavement, a harbour wall, a half built apartment block, or dilapidated house. These unpeopled and unimportant spaces feel disregarded in life but seem to adopt a stature of consequence when she places them centrally in her compositions. She captures them in a certain space in time before being updated or demolished. The structures and dwellings she is drawn to stand alone. The play of light falls across their broken facades and boarded up windows and speaks of the poetic silence of everyday life. It makes extraordinary out of the ordinary. Their uninhabited state accentuates the quietness. She depicts them caught in a certain moment in time and as well as a sense of passing, She is conscious of the labour and life that has witnessed and helped form them. The traces of passers by who stop to gaze and admire. she is one of these many. Sensing her place in the cycle, documenting things once regarded. Now worn and imperfect, they are disposable. These are the changing pieces of her environment. Empathising and watching, She portrays their silent composure and beauty before their imminent demise. Her process is multi plate colour etching. She meticulously spit-bites her pieces entirely, painting acid onto copper plates to create deep tones and rich darks, checking the etched aquatinted surfaces diligently to control the outcome. It is a focused and intensive method and one that has endured for centuries. There is a rich layering of colour in each print. The focused process and layering of colour seem to echo something of the patina of time that attracts her to these forgotten structures in the first place