Since completing her residency last spring, Julia Lawing has definitely been keeping herself busy. A lover of travel, Julia is using photos from recent visits to northern California, Charleston, SC, coastal Georgia and the mountains of NC to inspire her new works. She says about her paintings, “I have been working on a series inspired by trips to the beach and the lake with my four daughters, incorporating the figure into my landscape work”.

When she is not painting commissions or her own personal work, Julia keeps her schedule full with a variety of exhibition opportunities. She has exhibited with Caldwell Arts Council in Lenoir, NC, at Elements in Vidalia, Georgia and with Alamance Arts in Graham, NC. She was awarded first place in the oil/acrylic painting category from Artoberfest with Mooresville Arts for her painting “Into a Wide Land”. Another of her works, “Sunset Shrimpers”, was purchased by Cone Health Cancer Center at Wesley Long Hospital in Greensboro.