Julie's Seagulls
Though my first career was in teaching art, I had little time to invest in my own creativity on canvas. Just when I thought I might make a start; my husband Bruce was diagnosed with his first cancer. I turned her attentions from art teaching to cooking. I wrote a healthy-eating cookbook to help Bruce beat cancer. It became an international best-seller. I wrote 22 more cookbooks over the next18 years. Along the way, I opened 2 health restaurants and consulted for food companies and appliance manufacturers as they chased after the health-conscious market. For a time, my life took me in a very different direction, away from all things art.
After Bruce passed, from a second cancer, mesothelioma, in 2006, I embraced all things travel. I also began writing the new chapters of my life that would see me writing a debut novel and going back to my painting roots.
In 2010, after a 4th summer in Croatia and my first journey to Morocco, I had a sudden urge to rush home and buy paints, brushes and canvas. Two successful art exhibitions later, I am currently working on a third exhibition for 2021.
My medium is vibrant acrylic on large canvas and at the moment my subjects are always seagulls inspired by her a seagull that came to live on my beach house just days after Bruce passed.
I hope my art will thrill and surprise you. My seagulls deserve large wall spaces and would be perfect to brighten up apartments, beach houses, wine bars, restaurants and corporate spaces.
