THE ARTIST
Julie Ann has been a professional artist for more than twenty years, ten of which were with the UK’s leading fine art agency. She lives in Dorset with her writer husband, Damian and has two grown-up daughters.
Her oil paintings are bought and exhibited worldwide, and she paints in front of live audiences at conferences around the world, often prophetically. This global recognition has led to the enormous honour of Julie Ann being asked to paint the main image for the 2025 US National Day of Prayer – a painting that will receive huge exposure.
She also has an exhibition of nine oil paintings depicting moments from the Second World War, called ‘Stand’. This exhibition carries huge meaning for today – not only reminding us of how King George VI called the nation to prayer seven times throughout the conflict, but also delivering an urgent message of challenge and hope for today’s world. ‘Stand’ has toured venues throughout the UK, including Windsor Castle, and is available to view at the ARC Conference 2025. There is also an accompanying ‘Stand’ book that offers a deeper exploration of each painting and the vital message behind them.
Light is the unifying factor in all of Julie Ann’s oil paintings, originating in the sight of the sun breaking through the misty darkness. This first blissful moment of light inspires the artist from both an aesthetic and a spiritual viewpoint. Alongside intensely coloured underwater scenes she creates semi-abstract representations of the landscape in which windswept trees and grasses are battered by the weather into a swirling vortex of light and energy.
These pieces are linked by the idea of curves and contours as they appear throughout nature, whether in the graceful shapes of koi swimming in the deep blue, or in arcing harbours and cloud formations flowing across the luminous sky.