Lexington, KY
About Julie Quick:
Julie Quick is a pastel artist from Lexington, Kentucky. Julie has been an artist her whole life but began to focus on it as a vocation in 2015. She has her own studio in downtown Lexington, and she also loves to paint on location. She's won numerous awards in plein air competitions, and 3 of her works have been juried and accepted at the international level through the International Association of Pastel Societies.
Julie's is inspired to express movement and emotion through bold mark making and intuitive color. She is drawn to landscapes due to the stability of land against the evermoving sky. In. her figurative work she is intrigued by movement and response, wanting to capture small gestures with meaningful undertones. She strives to create paintings which are lively, characteristic of the mood, and to capture the natural beauty of her viewpoint.
Selected exhibitions
- Lexarts - Lexington KY, 2024
- Hockensmith Fine Art Editions - Lexington KY, 2024
- Wills Gallery - Lexington KY, 2023
- New Editions - Lexington KY, 2022
- Wills Gallery - Lexington Ky, 2022
- Wills Gallery - Lexington KY, 2021
Education
- University of Illinois, BS in Agriculture - Champaign IL,1984