About
Bio
Julie lives on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. Her paintings celebrate nature’s radiance.
Time spent on Kangaroo Island as a child instilled a love of the ocean and an appreciation for nature’s wild pristine beauty. Best memories include: swimming in aquamarine clear water, exploring rock pools, discovering marine life and sheltering from the hot summer sun under the casuarina trees, feeling totally at peace listening to the summer breeze whistle gently through the leaves.
Several years ago she decided to listen to the artist within and follow an instinctive yearning to paint big bright canvas’s and is delighted to be finally honouring her deepest calling.
Education
Self taught creator and always learning
I create radiant nature themed acrylic paintings that energise with their vibrancy and harmonise the environment.
The work may speak to your heart and soul; it may allow you to reminisce about the past or recall a special place you visited.
As a sensitive, sensory soul I connect with colour vibrations and patterns. Communicating from this zone, my work flows and ideas manifest; images, symbols and visions can stay with me for months, even years arising again and again, until I realise I simply have to draw or paint them. Once I get into the creative flow, it’s an all consuming experience where time does not exist and there is only the joy of being in the moment. In between more intense works, I really let go and splash paint around; totally enjoying the fun and freedom of no rules.
I have a love of pattern and often find myself drawing shapes and designs or whatever’s currently calling out to be expressed.
Ok….. I admit to being a lifetime spontaneous doodler! I will be the one drawing on a spare piece of paper while talking on the phone or sitting in a meeting.
It was a natural progression for me to move into digital design via learning how to create WordPress websites, learning Adobe Illustrator and then discovering the joys of Procreate. Which then lead to becoming fascinated with repeat patterns and obsessing with the desire to have my art on fabric.
Themes for my work are often environmental and botanical.
Subjects include birds, marine life, ocean/water, flowers, plants, trees, landscapes.
Styles contemporary impressionism, landscapes, seascapes, semi-abstract, abstract, visionary.
Mediums acrylic, texture, glaze, marking pens, charcoal.
Tools brushes, palette knives.