During the month of December and January, the landscape paintings of local artist Julie Highlen, Northwoods Art Studio will be on display at The Deo Gallery in Marquette, MI.
The Deo Gallery in located at the Marquette Arts & Culture Center on the lower level of the Peter White Public Library, 217 North Front St., Marquette. The gallery is free and open to the public.
email Julie at Northwoodsartstudio@gmail.com
Julie and her husband made the move to Deerton in 2016, enabling Julie to pursue art full time and for John to further build his writing career. Their love for the outdoors shows in their career paths. Each time John and Julie go outdoors, Julie brings her camera and/or sketchbook and paint supplies in hopes of capturing the light, unexpected wildlife, and nature’s simple splendor.
It was only natural for Julie Highlen’s artwork to celebrate the north. Julie wants the viewer to not only enjoy the beauty of the Upper Peninsula, but the strength and resilience of it as well. Whether depicting a lone tree or a single boulder along Lake Superior’s shore, with cedars miraculously growing out of it, there is majesty. She has been described as a “mood painter” with her work “capturing the serenity of the moment”, “taking a vacation on canvas”.
After experimenting with other mediums, Julie prefers using acrylics. Pouring over art books and belonging to local art associations help develop her skills. Attending critiques, demonstrations, workshops and interacting with other artists are vital in her development as an artist.
Julie is member of the Lake Superior Art Association in Marquette and enjoys working from her home and studio in Deerton, Michigan. She participates in Fresh Coast Plein Air Festival and received People’s Choice Award for her “Peaceful Passage” and “Black Rocks” paintings. She and her husband had an artist-in-residence in Ely, Minnesota with the Listening Point Foundation, and two weeks in the Porcupine Mountains where Julie worked as an artist-in-resident in January 2020 and John worked as artist-in-residence in October of the same year. Six originals are part of the permanent collections of Henry Ford Hospital in Jackson and Macomb Counties, Michigan. “Makin’ Tracks” is in the permanent collection of Friends of the Porkies.
Originals, cards, paper and canvas prints of her work can also be found at Zero Degrees Gallery in Marquette, Gallery of 5th in Calumet, and seasonally at Art in Abundance in Grand Marais or by contacting her direct.
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