About Julie

“From my mid-primary and teenage years, I found that art was something I enjoyed and gave me confidence. I always enjoyed using it to bring people together - from murals in youth clubs, probation hostels, National Children's Home summer play schemes, and special schools. Creating stimulating experiences for children and developing the creative curriculum in Primary Education, to workshop groups and one-to-one support in nursing and residential homes, I have amounted a vast and varied knowledge and experiential base from which to draw. Each new encounter is always a partnership.”

Julie worked for thirty years in Primary Education mostly as a full time teacher, and during that time held and developed the art coordinator's role amongst others, such as Special educational needs, Literacy, Humanities and the environment; being in the senior management team and governing body, implementing Investors in People and the Healthy schools programme. She and her colleagues had revised the curriculum and many programmes of study, implemented the first SATS, the National Curriculum and its revised states, and adapted and created ways of working to optimize the children's enjoyment in learning and enrich their experience at school, in both vertically (family) and same aged grouped classes. Latterly Julie set up and ran 'Young Explorers': a pre-school group, with the outdoors, creativity and nature at its core. This was rated Outstanding by OFSTED. Julie has run numerous Inset days for different groups of teachers in Cheshire, London and Somerset and workshops for the CASSA conference on Wellbeing. She has exhibited her own work around the U.K. and holds a post-graduate diploma in painting from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design.

For more information and commissions: contact Julie