Painting Plein Air during 2020
Julie Quick is a pastel artist living in Lexington, Kentucky. Her inspiration comes from her experiences of daily life in Kentucky and through her travels. The natural landscape and equestrian way of life are some of her favorite subjects to capture with impressionist and colorful marks. “I’m drawn to the landscape through its contrasting motion of sky against the stability of land; I see the relationship between horse and rider in a similar way through movement and response.” Julie strives to create paintings that are lively and characteristic of the mood or natural beauty of her context.
Julie graduated from the University of Illinois with B.S. in Agriculture and continued to take art instruction at the university level and through private lessons while she pursued her career and family. In 2015 she completed of year long challenge of painting a new painting every day; after this experience she changed her focus to becoming a full time artist and had her first solo show in July of 2017 at the Wills Gallery. Since then she has had additional solo shows there and at St. Joseph Hospital East. In addition she has participated in joint shows at the Woodford County Library, Paint the Town and Paint By Nature. In June of 2023, Julie received first place for her painting “Blues in July” at the Plain Air competition “Paint the Town” presented By Arts Connect in Lexington, Kentucky.
In the Fall of 2022 Julie’s painting seen below, Star Gap, was accepted into the open Division of the International Association of Pastel Societies Webshow. Julie’s art has now been accepted in the last 3 IAPS Webshows. In the Spring of 2023, her painting, Morning Shadows in the Canyon, was juried into the open division, and most recently her painting, Twilight over Bluegrass, was accepted into the Fall 2023 webshow., Julie has her own studio in the lower level of Artsplace, 161 N. Mill street, in downtown Lexington.
Memberships/Associations
Lexarts 2012-present
Commerce Lexington 2016-present
Pastel Society of America Associate Member 2020-present
Northwest Pastel Society of America 2022-present
Working at the top of the Skyline in Downtown Lexington
Recent Awards And Acceptances
Twilight Over Bluegrass 16”x22” pastel International Pastel Society 2023 Fall Webshow Open Division
Star Gap 9”x14” pastel IAPS Webshow 2022 Accepted Entry in the OPEN Division
The Reclamation of Cross Keys
2nd Place, “Paint By Nature”
sponsored by Arts connect and the city of Lexington
August 2018
Private Collection
Julie’s studio is located at 161 N. Mill Street in downtown Lexington, KY at Artsplace. Julie’s art can seen and purchased at the The Wills Gallery and South Hill Gallery. She is also a member of Commerce Lexington.
