Meet Julia
Julia Margaret is an American artist working in paint and layered textile. Her work is rooted in color, form, and the visual rhythm of the natural world — exploring florals, botanicals, desert light, and coastal influence through both bold abstraction and refined detail.
She works across mediums — watercolor, fabric, and meticulous stitching — to create surfaces that feel tactile, dimensional, and alive. Her approach is steady, intentional, and deeply observational.
Artist Statement
My work is spirit energized by color.
Paint and fabric allow me to layer experience—what I have seen, where I have been, what I have held onto. Nature is my starting point, but abstraction is the language. I am always looking for the intersection between the two.
Whether I am painting or composing in fabric, the process is the same: I respond. I edit. I allow the piece to lead. The final form emerges through accumulation—like memory itself.
Her Story
Julia spent most of her life in New Mexico, where she first developed her relationship to color and light. The high desert shaped her eye in a permanent way — wide open spaces, saturated skies, and the subtle shifts of the horizon.
She later lived and worked for several years in Mexico, where she became drawn to the way color functions within culture — not just as design, but as expression, identity, and everyday language.
Today, she lives and works from a yurt in Boerne, Texas, surrounded by the quiet nature of the Hill Country. Her studio practice is grounded in place, but her work moves fluidly across memory, experience, and instinct.
Julia’s pieces are in private collections worldwide and have been featured in regional exhibitions, galleries, and shows.
Her work continues to evolve — but the through-line never changes:
color, nature, and a life lived close to the land. this.
