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    • Oil and Encaustic
    • Watercolor
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    Oax: Copper Mountains

    Mixed media on paper
    Art dimensions: 11" x 15"
    $500

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    Oax: Moody Blue Cliffs I

    Oil on paper
    Art dimensions: 11.5" x 15"
    $500

    Picture
    Oax: Moody Blue Cliffs II

    Oil on paper
    Art dimensions: 11" x 15"
    $500

    Picture
    Sea of Cortez 4

    Oil on canvas
    Art dimensions: 18" x 18"
    $650


    Picture
    Sea of Cortez: Dusk Ribbons

    Oil on canvas
    Art dimensions: 18" x 18"
    $650


    Picture
    Unreachable

    Oil on canvas
    Art dimensions: 18" x 18"
    $650


    Picture
    Sea Echo

    Oil on canvas
    Art dimensions: 18" x 18"
    $650


    Picture
    Dark Cloud Bearing Rain

    Oil on canvas
    Art dimensions: 18" x 36"
    $1,300


    Picture
    Quilt Boundaries

    Oil on canvas
    Art dimensions: 18" x 36"
    $1,300


    Picture
    San Jose del Cabo, Sea of Cortez: Small Beachscape #1

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 7" x 10"
    $85

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    San Jose del Cabo, Sea of Cortez: Small Beachscape #2

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 7" x 10"
    $85

    Picture
    San Jose del Cabo, Sea of Cortez: Small Beachscape #3

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 7" x 10"
    $85

    Picture
    San Jose del Cabo, Sea of Cortez: Blue Waters

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 7" x 10.25"
    $200 Framed


    Picture
    San Jose del Cabo, Sea of Cortez: Orange Cliffs I

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 9" x 12"
    $100


    Picture
    San Jose del Cabo, Sea of Cortez: Beachscape with Purple Cliffs

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 9" x 12"
    $100

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    San Jose del Cabo, Sea of Cortez: Golden Peaks

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 9" x 12"
    $225 Framed


    Picture
    San Jose del Cabo, Sea of Cortez: Cloudy Skies II

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 9" x 12"
    $100


    Picture
    San Jose del Cabo, Sea of Cortez: Beachscape with Golden Cliffs

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 9" x 12"
    $100

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    San Jose del Cabo, Sea of Cortez: Purple Cliffs I

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 9" x 12"
    $100


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    San Jose del Cabo, Sea of Cortez: Purple Cliffs II

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 9" x 12"
    $100


    Picture
    High Lake: Panorama II

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 9.25" x 23"
    $385 Framed


    Picture
    Golden Hibiscus

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 7" x 10"
    $75

    Picture
    Large Orange Hibiscus

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 7" x 10"
    $75

    Picture
    Large Yellow Hibiscus

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 7" x 10"
    $75

    Picture
    Orange Hibiscus

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"
    $75

    Picture
    Pale Purple Hibiscus

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 7" x 10"
    $75

    Picture
    Red-Purple Hibiscus

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5"
    $75

    Picture
    Yellow Hibiscus

    Watercolour on paper
    Art dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5"
    $75

    abstract, landscape, scenic, gestural, vibrant, natural, nature, soothing, floral, botanical, tropical, representational, calming, contemporary, textural
  • Lakeside Forest #3

    Watercolor on paper

    JKO190321C
    Nightscape

    Oil on canvas

    JKO190327C
    Landscape Conversation #4

    Oil on canvas

    JKO190326C
    Landscape Conversation #3

    Oil on canvas

    JKO190325C
    Landscape Conversation #2

    Oil on canvas

    JKO190324C
    Landscape Conversation #1

    Oil on canvas

    JKO190323C
    Beachscape with Sandy Cliffs

    Watercolor on paper

    JKO190311C
    Beachscape with Green Cliffs

    Watercolor on paper

    JKO190313C
    Beachscape with Brown Cliffs

    Watercolor on paper

    JKO190316C
    Beachscape with Pink Cliffs

    Watercolor on paper

    JKO190314C
    Reflections

    Oil on canvas

    JKO150302C
    Spring Fields

    Oil on canvas

    JKO150306C
    Night Dreams

    Oil on canvas

    JKO161004C
  • ​Biography
    Julia is a native mid-westener, born in Michigan. She has studied art in Florida, Maryland and California before moving to Iowa in 1992. She has a B.A., with painting as her emphasis, from Coe College. She has work in various collections nationally, including Alliant Energy, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Coe College, Kirkwood Community College, University Miami of Ohio, Millhiser Smith, Terry, Lockridge and Dunn, and United Fire Group. She is currently a full time painter.

    Statement
    "​Viewing and painting a land “sweep” or landscape, I express myself through personal reflection. Memories of the past infuse my current vision and I willingly allow the two to combine—past and present mental visions, a blended perspective into my voice. This is how and why I paint landscapes that have elements of times past, but in abstraction. I love to see, as I hope the viewer does, a “surprise” or a moment that happens in my paintings, either while painting or after completion. It is important to me to keep some sense of traditional order in the landscape, but I also like to let the paint take on a life of its own and lead me to an end result that can be unexpected and seductive.


    Plowed rows in fields are reminiscent of a past growing up in rural areas of the Midwest. Retracing routes to nearby towns and farms through endless fields of grain and dirt, being hypnotized by patterns of corn and soybean fields whirling by, and finding hidden objects in clouds and vistas--these are images etched in my brain that continuously return to me.

    ​My work begins with a feeling of a landscape but progresses to a color exploration and a desecration or falling apart of the composition, letting go the prescribed visual references to a landscape and allowing me (and the viewer) to wander and explore. I use a palette knife to apply the oils to give a tactile quality and enhance the painterly and gesture activity."
    Previous Exhibitions
    Endless Planes
    Leading Ladies
    Video
    Coming soon
  • Education

    B.A. Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
    Concentration,oil painting

    Non-degree Solano College, Fairfield, California 
    Additional college classes for non-degree including:
    Sculpture, Raku pottery, Navajo weaving and Perspective drawing

    A.A. Polk College, Winter Haven, Florida

    Exhibits/Shows

    2017
    Art at the Lincoln Cafe
    Mt. Vernon, IA
    July 


    2016
    "Leading Ladies" 
    Gilded Pear Gallery
    Cedar Rapids, IA

    "New Work"
    Guaranty Bank & Trust
    Cedar Rapids, IA
    September

    Quad City Arts
    Art @ the Airport
    Cedar River Artisans Group show
    September - October


    2015
    Coe College Alumni Exhibit
    Cherry Building, Cedar Rapids, IA
    October

    "Midwest Summer; Light and Warmth"
    Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
    June - August

    Artisan's Sanctuary
    Cedar Rapids, IA
    Cedar River Artisans Group Show
    "Bindings" 
    April 

    2012
    "Lure of the Local"
    Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
    Feburary - May 

    Featured Artist, Mercy Medical Center
    Cedar Rapids, IA
    April - May

    Featured Artist, Guaranty Bank
    Cedar Rapids, IA
    May - June

    Legion Arts, CSPS
    Cedar River Artisan's Group Show
    "Guitar Voices"
    June - August

    Quad City Arts Center
    Rock Island, Ill
    Group Show CRA
    June - Aug

    Lowe Art Center
    Marion, IA
    Group Show CRA
    September - November

    "ARTSTOP"
    Cedar River Artisan's
    "Guitar Voices" 
    Valley Junction
    Des Moines, IA
    September

    Blackhawk Community College
    Moline, ILL
    Group Show CRA
    November - December


    2011
    Featured Aritst, Iowa Artisan's Gallery, Iowa City, IA
    Figgi "Salon" Art Museum Group Show: "Cedar River Artisan's"

    2010
    Juried "Small Works" Show, Chait Callery, Iowa City, IA
    NewBo Arts Festival Group show: "Cedar River Artisan's"
    Quad City Arts 'Art at the Airport exhibition'
    Juried "Artist Invitational" 

    2009
    Juried "Small Works" Show, Chait Gallery, Iowa City, IA
    University of Iowa Theatre Arts, 
    Summer Repertory Theatre Building Exhibit,
    "Artist Invitational"
    Metro Gallery Tour,Campbell Steele Gallery, Marion,IA,
    "New Work" artist invitation. 

    2008 
    University of Iowa, President's home tour, "Selected Artist Works"
    Juried "Small Works" Show, Chait Gallery, Iowa City, IA 
    'Artist Invitational' Alliant Energy Woman's Symposium, Featured Artist, Madison, WI
    Coe College Art Department Alumni Show, Cedar Rapids, IA


    2007
    Marion Home Tour, 'Selected Works'
    Iowa Artisan's Gallery, Iowa City Featured artist
    'Artist Invitational' Alliant Energy Woman's Symposium, Featured artist, Cedar Rapids,IA
    'Gallery Walk',Campbell Steele Gallery, Marion IA,Featured artist

    2006
    'Gallery Walk', Campbell Steele Gallery, Marion, IA
    Featured artist

    2005
    'Gallery Walk', Campbell Steele Gallery, Marion, IA
    Featured artist
    B.A. Senior Thesis Exhibition, Coe College,
    Oil painting

    2003
    Student Symposium 'Fields of Colour', Coe College
    Oil painting

    Awards
    2002 Susan Lawson Bauma Prize in Art, Coe College, painting 
    2003 Susan Lawson Bauma Prize in Art, Coe College, painting 

    Bibliography/Publications
    2010 Membership, juried Iowa Arts Council Artist Roster
    2008 Emerge Midwest Art 'Zine' October Issue, juried 
    2007 Cedar Rapids Gazette, Iowa Press Citizen, 
    The Daily Palette, School of Art and Art History, 
    University of Iowa, dailypalette.uiowa.edu/page2.php
    2003 Cedar Rapids Gazette, 'Community' April 18, 
    Coe College Student Research Symposium 
    Student Symposium 'Fields of Colour', Coe College
    Oil painting

    Gallery Representation
    Gilded Pear, Cedar Rapids, IA 
    Iowa Artisans Gallery, Iowa City, IA
    East End Art, Mount Vernon, IA

    Life experience:
    Arts Director, Eastern Iowa Arts Director, Cedar Rapids, IA, 2009-2013
    Facilitator/Artist/educator, Eastside Arts Academy, Cedar 
    Rapids IA, 2007-2009
    Cedar River Artisan's : Collaborative Art Group 
    Adjudicator, Reflections Artist Competition 
    CRMA docent 1996-98
    Art presenter, Grant Wood Elementary School 1993- 1997
    Design and layout for Mercy Hospital Auxiliary publications, 1993-1997
    Logo design and layout, St.Lukes Hospital Showcase
    House 64 pg. publication, 1992 and 1994 editions 

    Collections
    Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA Permanent Collection
    University, Miami of Ohio, Clarinet Studio
    Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, IA
    Terry, Lockridge and Dunn, Iowa City, IA
    Millhiser Smith
    Miami of Ohio
    United Fire Group
    Cabinet Studio and Lighting
    Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA
    Alliant Energy, Cedar Rapids, IA, (Public Art,associated with Eastern Iowa Arts Academy)
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