Julie was born in Adelaide South Australia. Her early career was in retail advertising but her ambition to work with animals started off as sketching and painting family pets and native animals.In 1973 she travelled to the UK, moving around photographing wildlife for future artwork.

Returning to Australia Julie settled in Sydney, accepting commissions and working privately in wildlife painting whilst being employed by an advertising company.

In 1976 she was commissioned by a large marketing company to head their Wildlife Fine Art Division, producing high quality calendars and art works for clients such as Qantas, Rolls Royce and DuPont. During this period she travelled to North America and extensively around Australia, studying, photographing and sketching wildlife in its environment, while holding successful wildlife art exhibitions at Paddington, Roseville and Taronga Zoo. A leading marketing company commissioned her to paint Australian wildlife for limited edition prints for sale on the Asian and American market. At this time Julie started work at Taronga Zoo in Sydney as one of their leading wildlife Artists and has produced many fine art animal graphics and posters.

In 1991 she started teaching students in both wildlife painting and general painting. She held private workshops in her studio and now has extended her teaching to weekend workshops at Gosford Art Centre, CamryAllen in the Hunter Valley, Karingal at Wallis Lake and the Capertee Valley. Specialising in wildlife Art, Julie has received invitations to hold wildlife drawing workshops at several Art Societies as well as Taronga Zoo in Sydney and at the Museum of Sydney in conjunction with the Ferdinand Bauer exhibition.

Julie has worked in most mediums: oil, acrylics, gouache, pen and pastels. Many of her paintings, both from sales at exhibitions and private commissions hang in public and private collections all over the world.

In "Artists and Galleries of Australia" Max Germaine lists Julie as a painter of birds and animals as he does in "Australian Authors". Due to publications of four children's books and one library reference book on Australian Mammals, she is listed in DW Thorpe's 2nd Edition of "Who's Who of Australian Writers", by Reed Reference Australia. Her fifth childrens' story book on frogs will be published in June 2000 by Scholastic Australia.

A series of Australian wildlife paintings were commissioned for use as placemats and coasters by Hale Imports and will be released in January 2000 for general sale.

As well as being busy painting commissions and fine art paintings for sale in galleries, Julie is currently involved with painting the many birds on exhibit for use in labels for Taronga Zoo and is also active in painting murals for commercial purposes.

Julie now lives in Dooralong Valley with her husband Gary, their dogs and many animal friends.