The process by which Julie arrives at a finished piece is the essence of her work. Her balanced compositions create a welcome environment over which a viewer’s eye can travel fluidly, while her characteristic use of texture speaks volumes to the process contained in the work. Her style is bold, lending itself to the large canvases she uses. Her paintings begin by playing around with colors and textures on the canvas, with no specific goal in mind. This method of preparation not only starts the process of image-building, but also is a sort of preparatory meditation for her as well. Over this layer of under-painting begins the true grit of the piece. During a work’s production, she tears through any overworked areas with palette knives, revealing the fresh new colors and surfaces underneath, while in contrast, assembling areas around those voids with even more layers of buttery texture. Hints of images will present themselves to her as she will start building on them, carving and adding paint, until finally the image has come forward within the layers. Her finished works are often dream-like visuals, often interpreted as alternate realities, cavernous expanses, or nebulous bodies in space. Sometimes her subjects are as concrete as buildings, animals or figures. In any case, her work portrays abstracted forms, generated from a place without boundaries, where reality often ends, and dreams begin.