Educated as a painter and printmaker, Julie studied the craft of bookbinding and box-making to house her prints which led her down a diverse design path that included rugs, textiles, hardware, tabletop, collaborations with architects, and public art.
As a self-taught jeweler, her approach is unconventional in process and begins by working directly with materials rather than sketching a preconceived idea. She finds inspiration in nature, primitive ethnic forms, indigenous crafts, and old-world processes. Her pieces are about possibilities for layering and stacking to create personal collages that uniquely juxtapose disparate elements with simple elegance.