Artist Statement
Julie Campbell is a self taught, emerging wildlife artist and comic creator. Passionate about our natural world, she loves to seek out her local wild spaces to gather sketches and photos of landscapes and wildlife, then reinterpret them digitally – creating simple, bold representations using a few carefully chosen colours. Julie then turns these pieces into affordable prints, homeware and accessories.
Her personal comics work draws inspiration from the emotional and spiritual journeys we take throughout our lives, with stories featuring growth and reflection, with a focus on glancing backwards, in order to look ahead. The artwork is bold and simple, with nature playing a large part in her stories.
Artist Bio
Julie is a self taught illustrator, comic creator and writer living in Fife, Scotland.
She has always been passionate about the natural world, and followed that interest with a degree in zoology while always maintaining art as a second love and hobby.
After a career in natural history – working in a local biological records centre and as a curator of natural history in a local museum, Julie took a career break to focus on her family, and now concentrates on her art, informed mostly by her love of nature.
She works in a studio at the bottom of her garden, and when not there is often on long walks in the countryside.
