Each work of art that Julie creates represents a moment she experienced in the field with her beloved wildlife and western subject matter. She spend weeks every year in observing, sketching, and photographing wildlife, horses, and rodeos throughout the Rockies. This material becomes the basis for her art; each piece may take up to a week or more of design work, playing with compositions, trying many variations in both physical and digital sketches. She’s not interested in rehashing the same image and the same composition repeatedly in the service of sales; she wants each work of art to be unique to the moment, to her vision, and to the collector in whose home it will live. When you purchase that work of art, the meaning becomes yours; you experience your own feelings and stories about the image. She starts the piece; you complete it. Julie uses only museum-quality archival materials. She uses professional-grade artists' oil and acrylic paints, archival supports like triple-primed 100% cotton canvas and acid-free papers, and custom-ordered professional scratchboards. Paintings are finished with multiple coats of protective varnish; scratchboards receive at least 5 coats of a matte final fixative that deepens the black and makes the surface tougher. Select National & International ExhibitionsBuffalo Bill Art Show, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY, 2018-2019Small Works Great Wonders, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK, 2017-2019Greeley Stampede Art Show, Greeley, CO, 2017-2019America’s Horse in Art, Amarillo, TX, 2014-2019The Horse in Contemporary Art, Dorset, England, 2015Southeastern Wildlife Expo, Charleston, SC, 2015-2019David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year, London, UK, 2012-2013Cheyenne Frontier Days Western Art Show, Cheyenne, WY, 2011-2019Calgary Stampede Western Art Show & Auction, Calgary, BC, Canada, 2010-2014Western Visions / Wild 100, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY, 20014-201512 Birds in Art, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI, 2003, 2006, 2012 Select AwardsBest of Show, Steel Dust Award, America’s Horse, 2016Runner-up, Director’s Award, Ex Arte Equinus International Competition, 2012Best of Show (flatwork), Calgary Stampede Western Showcase Art Auction, 2011Artistic Excellence, Honorable Mention, Southwest Art Magazine, 2011Treasured Artist, State of Montana, 2010Artist-in-Residence, National Museum of Wildlife Art, 2008Grand Prize, Arts for the Parks, Jackson, WY, 2002 Select Publications“Cutting Edge," America’s Horse, Oct 2016 “Exuberance & Experimentation in the Ninemile Valley," Big Sky Journal, Arts, 2016 “The Horse in Art," Western Art & Architecture, August/September 2016 “Drawing on Experience,” Southwest Art, April 2016 “Art & Etc.,” Sporting Classics, Jan-Feb 2016 “High Wide & Handsome,” Bugle Magazine, July/August 2015 “Pigments of my Imagination,” Western Art Collector, November 2014 “Artists of the Horse,” Wildlife Art Journal, Autumn 2011 “Up Close & Personal,” Southwest Art, April 2008 Learn more about Julie in the blog!