Born in St. Louis, MO, Julie has lived in Portland, OR since 1977. She received a BFA in Painting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in1977 and a M.Ed. in Education from the University of Portland in 1997.

Julie's studio is in NW Portland at Thurman Street Studios

The subject of my work is that which is. I try to reorder the objective world and paint ideas, simply because they may not be seeable any other way. I try to see aspects of the physical world in a more personally real way. There are many truths about a place or a thing and one image cannot portray all those realities. What we “see” is created by the brain using data sent there by the eye. This allows for many influences to affect our perceptions of reality such as our individual nature, our emotional state and intrusions from the outside.

In my work, I try to overcome the restrictive confines of my eye’s camera reality and allow other realities to come forth. The realistic image projected from our eye to our brain is not the only true way a place or thing looks. It is but one representation of nature. My work is yet another representation of that nature. “Really seeing” beyond the camera image of the eye can cause the world to become an extraordinary place.

The landscape becomes reflective, human and thinks through me. I become the subjective consciousness of the landscape, and my paintings become its objective consciousness. Cezanne