About Juli
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Juli creates expressive landscapes using water-based paint on canvas, wood, paper and metal. Her work is based on moments of connection with place. Recently she has been reflecting on how grief changes the way she responds to familiar locations. Juli came to art as a pain management technique. The chronic condition fibromyalgia gives her an acute sensitivity to light and colour which informs her palette. The restorative power of time spent in woodlands is a recurring theme through her work. Juli’s paintings and her personal experience are testament to the possibility of reclaiming your life from trauma or disability
Juli's painting is rooted in her journey from isolated invalid to gallery artist. For decades she was locked in chronic pain, worklessness, and despair. When, in her late fifties, she reconnected with a childhood love of the visual arts, it changed her life.
In 2021, one of Juli’s paintings was selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and she took part in a BBC2 documentary about the exhibition. The self-taught artist has participated in numerous fairs and group exhibitions including with ArtCan and the Society of East Anglian Watercolourists.
Artist CV
Long listed for the VAA Artist of the Year, 2026
The Shape of Trees, Stiwdio Maleor, Snowdonia, August/October 2026
En Plein Air, Rye Art Gallery, Sussex, August 2026
Splash, ArtCan, Art Movement Gallery, London, August 2026
Affordable Art Exhibition, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, May 2026
Spring Open, St Ives Society of Artists, St Ives, May/June 2026
Under the Stalls Art Fair, Norwich, April 2026
Southfields Art Festival, Southfields, London, March 2026
Shelter, Outside In National Open Exhibition, Christie's London, January 2026
End of Year Show, Art of Isolation, Surrey Quays, London, December 2025
Aqua Art, Miami Art Week, December 2025
Art As Refuge, contribution to conference and digital publication through Outside In, November 2025
Light in the Dark, Gallery Grounds, Southampton, November – December 2025
Wandsworth Artists Open House, October, 2025
Art in the Park, Commonworks Gallery, Wimbledon, September 2025
Cover Artist Time & Leisure Magazine, Wimbledon, September 2025
People's Choice Winner, the Level Centre National Exhibition, September 2025
En Plein Air Exhibition, Rye Art Gallery, Rye, August – September
Longlisted for the VAA Artist of the Year 2025, August
National Open Exhibition Level Centre, Derbyshire, July – September 2025
Longlisted for the VAO 2025, July 2025
Outside In National Open Exhibition, from June 2025
Southfields Art Festival, London, March, 2025
Winter Open, Linden Hall Studio, Deal, December, 2024
Bobcat Gallery, Putney, December, 2024
Art Fair East, Norwich, November, 2024
Wandsworth artists Open house, October, 2024
Longlisted, Visual Artists Open, 2024, July 2024
Shortlisted, Artist of the Year 2024, Visual Artists Association, June 2024
Artist in Residence, for the charity A Space Between
Shortlisted, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 2024,
England Is a Forest, Small Works Gallery, Colchester & digital, June 2024
For the Love of Colour, Carre Gallery, Sleaford, June 2024
New Beginnings, Badger in the Wall Gallery, Yorkshire Dales, May 2024 (open call)
Then & Now, Virtual Exhibition, December 2023 (ArtCan)
Winter, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, October 2023 (open call by Water Street Gallery)
Art Fair East, Norwich, December 2023
Perspectives on Bury St Edmunds, October 2023 (Art in East Anglia Gallery)
Solo Artist Open House, August 2023
Longlisted for VAA Professional Artist Award, July 2023
Longlisted for Women in Art Prize, June 2023
Sanctuary , Cambridge, May 2023 (group exhibition female ArtCan artists put on with a bursary from the Hollybush Prize.)
Saltaire Arts Trail, Bradford, May 2023
Shortlisted for the D31 Art Prize , April 2023, D31 Gallery
Unconsumed, Norwich, March 2023 (open call exhibition in the Shoe Factory art space)
Ensemble, Paris, February 2023 – (year-long exhibition with ArtCan)
Mythical Woods, Stanton Guildhouse January 2023 – (year-long exhibition through open call)
WaterWays, Babylon, Ely, September 2022 (open call Society of East Anglian Watercolourists)
Painting the Wetlands, London August 2022
Walking with Trees, Guildhall Studio, Bury St Edmunds, April 2022 (6 week Gallery exhibition in partnership with a photographer)
Awash, Handa Gallery, Wells next the Sea, February 2022 (open call by Society of East Anglian Watercolourists)
Explore 01, New York, February 2022 (extended exhibition through ArtCan)
ING Discerning Eye, 2021
BBC 2 Documentary on Summer Exhibition applicants October 2021
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition,
"Reclaiming Magic" September 2021
Framed! Street Art Southfields Summer, 2021, (long-running public art project in south London)
Sussex Art Fair, July 2021
ING Discerning Eye, November 2020
The New Artist Fair, London, 2019