Gallery Opening on June 7, 2024 from 5-7 PM Meet Julia and share in Refreshments, meet more of the MAC artists and check out what everyone has been working on this winter!
Julia joined the Maine Art Collective in 2024 at the 157 Middle Street, Portland, Maine location. Often working in Pen and Ink, Julia’s drawings and paintings, and occasionally a print, catch people’s attention with her whimsically eclectic images.
Originally drawing inspiration from the surrounding nature of the rural midwest, Julia spent her childhood running through grassy fields and gazing up at stars, or deep in the pages of a fantasy fiction novel. Viewing her art, she captivates your interest as you are drawn into the depth of her visions. After the image generally catches your interest, you look closer and are drawn deeper and deeper into her vision. Often times, it’s a journey away from the day to day reality. Such a fun excursion and your can take them home and travel into her images frequently.
She moved to the East Coast to pursue an Illustration and Fine Arts degree at the Art Institute of Boston and currently resides in the beautiful state of Maine. Now many of her images are reflecting her new home, here near out great North Atlantic Ocean.
Her work was featured in “Pop-Ups at the Press” in 2023 hosted by The Press Hotel in Portland. She was also invited as a local artist to take part in the “Flying Colors: Benefit Art Auction” at the Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine in 2024, where her piece “Print of Scarborough Marsh” was successfully auctioned.
Julia became a member artist of the Maine Art Collective in May of 2023. Last summer she was busy creating even when it was her turn to tend the gallery. With her sketchbook in hand, pen, ink and paper on the desk, talking about art did not slow down her work.
Julia is looking forward to another great year in the gallery for 2024! Come to Maine Art Collective, 157 Middle Street, Portland to see her new art.
Julia calls her business Shnurgle. “Shnurgle” : Defined loosely as a light-hearted, slightly goofy, always playful interaction of affection and joy. A word that originated between my sister and I growing up that encapsulates loving and hilarious incidents.
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