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Julie studied BA Hons Painting at the University of Reading 1980-84, where she was taught by many acclaimed artists and art historians of today. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the ING Discerning Eye, London, three awards from the Royal Watercolour Society, London and has twice received the prestigious award of 1st prize for Watercolour at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
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Julie is a Member of the Society of Women Artists and a Member of the SWA Council. In 2025 she became a Freeman of the Worshipful Painter Stainers Company and a Member of The Painter-Stainers' Art Society.
She has written ten art books to date, many of which have been translated are sold worldwide. Her book "The Colour Mixing Companion" can be seen at Tate Modern, Tate Britain and Kew Gardens. 


"Julie paints with acrylic and watercolour. Her particularly subtle lightness of touch creates small-scale atmospheric studies of landscape. Spare and emblematic figures and trees serve as figurative markers in the coolly-rendered space."  Pontone Gallery, London 2025






Julie Collins 2025
Photo credit Joe Horridge