Julie is an award-winning artist living in Yorkshire. She is delighted to announce that her second exhibition in October, 2011, in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, raised £10,000 for the charity, with 56 paintings sold. Julie is also pleased to announce that she is now a Trustee of the Association of Animal Artists, with special responsibility for exhibitions. She is 'artist in residence' at The Mallyan Spout Hotel, Goathland, North Yorkshire and she has works on display and for sale at The Gourmet Cafe, Wetherby, The Chequers Inn, Bilton-in-Ainsty and in the gallery at Frame-Abel, Tockwith, near York.
Although Julie only started painting in 2006 she has made swift progress and her work was chosen for show at two national exhibitions in 2007, culminating in her being awarded the 2007 JUNE ATHERTON AWARD FOR BEST BEGINNER by the internationally recognised Society for All Artists. Less than a year later, Julie's painting 'Direct Appeal' was shortlisted for the inaugural David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation's International Wildlife Artist of the Year 2008, where it was exhibited at The Mall Galleries, London. Two of her paintings were judged Best Landscape and Best Abstract in the SAA's 2008 Beginner Artist of the Year competition.
Later in 2008, Julie had a painting exhibited in the A1 Open Summer Art Exhibition in Richmond and her large watercolour, 'Alarming', was exhibited by the Open College of Arts at the Arts Materials Live exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham in November 2008. She also had two watercolours exhibited at The Mall Galleries in December as part of Sue Ryder Care's Art Liberating Lives Exhibition.
Julie held her first solo exhibition in May 2009, in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, and raised £4,000 for the charity, with 33 paintings sold. Her watercolour, 'Pied Panda of Pingwu', was a finalist in the Wildlife Artist of the Year 2009 competition, and it was exhibited at The Mall Galleries, 1 - 6 June 2009. Her painting, 'Poppy Shadow', was the overall winner of the Flowers or Gardens category of the SAA's Artist of the Year Competition 2009, and it was exhibited in London, 23 - 25 July. She also had two paintings chosen for the National Exhibition of Wildlife Art in Cheshire, in July - August 2009. She was delighted to have a painting accepted and sold at the prestigious ING Discerning Eye Exhibition in London in November 2009, and she also had a large watercolour portrait exhibited as part of the Sue Ryder Care 'Art Liberating Lives' Exhibition in London in December.
In 2010, Julie again had work shortlisted for the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year competition and had a painting accepted into 'The Artist' magazine national exhibition at Patchings Art Centre, Nottingham. She had six paintings chosen for The Great Sheffield Art Show in July and her work was accepted by the Society of Women Artists for exhibition in London in July. Her tiger watercolour, 'Perilous Predicament', was chosen for exhibition at the National Exhibition of Wildlife Art in Cheshire, 16 July - 1 August. Julie is now a member of the Association of Animal Artists and has work exhibited at Derby House, Wrightington, and she exhibited with the Society of Equestrian Artists in Newmarket at Christmas 2010.
2011 saw Julie exhibiting with the Association of Animal Artists at Samlesbury Hall and Derby House, Wrightington, and she had another work shortlisted for the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 2011, which was judged Highly Commended, exhibited at the Mall Galleries from 6 June. She also had a small oil painting, 'Not Waving, But Drowning', chosen as a finalist in 'The Artist' magazine's Artist of the Year, on display at Patchings Art Centre, Nottingham, 9 June to 10 July 2011, and she had a painting chosen as a finalist in this year's Sunday Telegraph watercolour landscape competition. One of Julie's works was featured in the 'Invisible' Open Art exhibition at Richmond Station (16 July - 3 September) and she had another work exhibited at the Bankside Gallery, London, in September, as a finalist in the London Lives: Travel exhibition. Two small oil paintings, 'Sinking Sun' and 'Autumn Fire', were accepted into the prestigious ING Discerning Eye exhibition in London, 10 - 20 November 2011.
Already in 2012, Julie has 3 paintings in the final of the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2012 competition, and her work, 'Red Squirrel Dynamic', will be exhibited in the portfolio exhibition at the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year competition at the Mall Galleries in May. Her oil painting, 'Paint by Numbers', is a finalist in 'The Artist' magazine's Artist of the Year 2012 competition, and will be exhibited at Patchings Art Centre, Nottingham, 14 June - 23 July 2012.