Classically trained in painting, pencil/charcoal rendering, and digital media, Julie specializes in the figurative and narrative. A graduate of Framingham State College's art program, she has her degree in Art Studio with a concentration in painting.
She has been commissioned for portraits, book covers, set designs, comic books, and public murals. Her medium is primarily oil paint and pencil, but she also uses charcoal, candle wax, acrylics, photography, clay, yarn, wire, wood, plastic, and prosthetic mannequin hands!
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In 2003 she premiered with a showing of her illustrations for Joey Sampson’s retelling of Yeats’ The Stolen Child.
Her rendering of Pope John Paul II accompanied the Monstrance he blessed in a tour of the Archdiocese of Boston in 2006. The painting has been reproduced as prayer cards for a call to vocations.
The Hosmer House in
Sudbury Massachusetts
hosted some of her works during its July 4th exhibition in 2006. It included “Italian Aria” and the triptych “Into Perspective.”
In 2008 she presented illustrations for her short story, Whispers of the Sea. Combined with the artwork for the story was an audio dramatization that was played throughout the show in the Mazmanian Gallery. This was in an attempt to bring to life what is usually found only on the page.
She worked as the artistic director for the e-zine "
Tower
of
Ivory
" from 2000-2003 and is head of the art movement, "Empirical Aestheticists".
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Her current projects are:
"Family Structure,” an exploration of the family using the mediums of wire and crochet
“
Alliance
,” a graphic novel
“The Mirror and the Word,” a novel
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Artist’s Statement—2007
You have a soul.
You do live.
To be human is to create.
To create beyond the necessary and practical
To create is to reflect the Immortal Creator,
To create is to be immortal.
To be immortal is to have a soul.
You have a soul,
Create.
