Julee Hutchison was born in 1955 in a suburb of Chicago.  She attended college in Ohio and lived some 23 years in Arizona.  Shortly after moving to Phoenix, Julee met her husband, Steve, a copywriter, and together they started their own graphic design and writing business.  Approximately six years ago, Julee began to take some evening classes at the Scottsdale Artists’ School and eventually enrolled in a number of week-long workshops instructed by exceptional guest artists.  Her love of nature and animals led her to Plein-air landscape painting.  It was this love for nature that was a critical part of her and her husband’s decision to move to Telluride, Colorado.  While landscape painting was Julee’s first love she has, through the years, also developed a love for painting the figure—particularly the figure in natural light.  

ARTIST STATEMENT 

“My hope, as an artist, is to be able to capture on canvas the magic I feel at a particular location or see in an individual and share that vision through my painting with my viewer.  I want to “take them there” with me.While I am not a musician, I see many comparisons between painting and music.  I often think of the energy of a conductor or the technique of a violinist holding a bow when I pick up my brush.  I strive to emulate that sensitive touch and energy while delivering paint to my canvas.  I am aware of trees, cows, buildings, etc. in a landscape and how they might be used as if they were musical notes in a score—thinking of where I want the viewer to light briefly on an element or brush stroke in my painting (i.e. eighth or sixteenth note) and where I want to really hold someone’s interest longer (i.e. a whole note) by the use of composition and paint application.  I hope that my piece will carry the audience away to some magical place or moment.In using a looser Plein-air style, my goal is to “touch” my viewer and share a special moment with them through my subject matter, composition, color, and technique.”  

EDUCATION 1999-2004          

Classes and workshops at Scottsdale Artists’ School Studied with Jove Wang, Peggi Kroll Roberts, Scott Christiansen, Nancy Chaboun, Michael Workman, Matt Smith, Tim Lawson, Bob Lemler, Skip Whitcomb and Ralph Oberg. 1977--B.F.A. from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Member of Oil Painters of America - 2007