Contemplating clouds
American born, Julia grew up in Maryland before embarking on a 20 year fashion design career in NYC. After Graduating from University of Delaware and Fashion Institute of Technology with a BA and AA in Fashion Design, she went on to design prints, then swimwear, lingerie and loungewear for Calvin Klein, GapBody, JCrew and Victoria Secret before moving to Sydney, Australia in 2012
The years in fashion had developed an excellent sense of colour and technical sketching of lingerie gave her landscapes depth and perspective. Julia has been a student of Willoughby Arts Center for several years, completed NAS short courses but is primarily self taught.
Julia has her own home studio allowing this very busy mother of 3 to paint as much as possible. In addition to several commissions, many of her works have been on auction to raise funds for Giant Steps School. Her 18 year old son Jack, has a significant autism and attends Giant Steps where he flourishes with the individualised attention. When Julia is not painting or looking after Jack and her two vivacious daughters, she volunteers at Giant Steps.
Art @ the Rowers Finalist 2022 & 2023 & 2025
Mosman Art Gallery Finalist 2021 & 2023
Linden New Art, Post card show Finalist 2024
The Other Art Fair 2023
The Affordable Art Fair 2024
Solo Exhibition, ArtSpace at the Concourse, Chatswood 2025