Julie Nettleton

Biography

Julie has been a botanical artist since 2004.  In her previous career as an interior designer Julie was greatly inspired by the beautiful designs of William Morris, the Arts & Crafts Movement and the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright who embraced the natural environment in all his work.  Wright once said that a building should be as dignified as a tree in the midst of nature.

For many years Julie also studied oil, painting in the old Dutch Masters' tradition with Nigel Thomson. 

Julie exhibits regularly at Botanica and with the Botanical Art Society of Australia, both in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens.  She has won a number of prizes with BASA including three Firsts and the People's Choice.  The Florilegium Society of the Botanic Gardens Trust has acquired two of Julie's works and will exhibit its full collection in 2016 to celebrate the bicentenary of the Royal Botanic Gardens in the Domain.  The Manly Art Gallery and Museum invited Julie to participate in two of their recent exhibitions.

Currently Julie is collaborating with the North Head Sanctuary Foundation Inc. in Manly.   A wonderful diversity of native plants, some rare and endangered, are growing within the Sanctuary and she is working to produce a significant collection of paintings to record these plants.

Exploring the eternal order of nature through botanical art is Julie's compelling passion and commitment.

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