Julia grew up in Brighouse, West Yorkshire. She carried a passion for art with her from as long as she can remember and held it close through school.

Always a fan of a good story she studied illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. She fell in love with printing there and made most of her illustrations by hand pulling ink through silk screens in a room of ink splatters and history. Because she had made little books this way her tutors suggested an MA course in Brighton. It was titled Sequential Illustration. It seemed the right fit because she felt most happy making multiples of drawings and prints. She liked how they spoke to each other.

After her Masters she made a few paintings, which were spotted by a gallery owner and before she knew it she was a painter! She painted seascapes of Brighton and also florals; colour and negative space were becoming really important to her.

She eventually returned to Yorkshire. She had missed the hills, the green, the tupperware skies. She now paints soft, dream like landscapes of places close to her heart from her studio in Hebden Bridge. She also returned to screen printing! She has been doing that as well as painting for twenty years now. It gives her a chance to make products that are affordable and bring joy to the everyday in hand printed cushions, cards, notebooks and more.

Over the last few years she has been lucky enough to be featured on TV; the BBC's Home is Where the Art Is and her painting on Alan Carr's Interior Design Masters. She has also had a print in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2019.

For the future she will just keep painting and drawing: capturing skies and the shapes of nature. Seeing how this collection of ideas speak to each other.