Artist: Julie Christensen

Having worked as a florist since the early 1980s, Julie’s love of Mother Nature’s bounty of blooms have always inspired her. In 2011, Julie’s home and thriving business (part of the Brisbane Flower Market) were lost in the floods that devastated Brisbane, she turned to painting as a way of overcoming anxiety.
Artist quote: “Flowers are without doubt, food for my soul, and I cannot contemplate a life without flowers around me.”
It was a trial-and-error learning curve, that began with acrylic paints, and then moving onto oils, then coloured pencils and watercolours. Julie loves photographing the flowers she works with, through the lifecycle of bud to decay, and then using the photos to create a composition to paint. Her first Brisbane solo exhibition in 2016 was hugely successful. In 2017 she won People’s Choice award and Curators Choice at the Rotary Art Spectacular in Brisbane. Julie says her art journey is continually evolving and hopes visitors to the Gallery will enjoy her work as much as she has enjoyed creating it.
