Julianne Gill is a visual artist and interior designer whose Barbadian parents raised her in Australia. There she studied fine arts for a year at Curtin University, then switched to interior design and decoration at TAFE.
During a trip to visit family in Barbados in 2001, she was offered a job with Designers Choice and ended up working there for five years. She was then approached by Archers Hall Design Centre, and began working with them on both commercial and residential properties, most of them high end. In both firms, she was commissioned to paint murals, design furniture and create paintings.
Julianne opened Studio J in 2010, in order to develop a design niche for a contemporary, clean-lined aesthetic with a more individual look, and to focus
more energy on painting, which is her passion. As an experienced designer, she specializes in providing personalized interiors which can incorporate both natural elements and commissioned artworks.
Long accustomed to using acrylics, she now employs additional media such as inks, encaustics and resin to explore colour and geometries. Julianne’s process often involves many layers of pushing the paint on and pulling it back to reveal complex layers and patterns.
Julianne’s work explores the shapes and layers of nature, using plants, the land, sea and even ethereal landscapes as subject matter. It is usually abstract and intuitive. Her modern botanical series is influenced by the vibrancy and colour of island living in Barbados.
Julianne Gill works from her home studio in Apes Hill, St. James, Barbados. She is the mother of two small children, enjoys the challenge of work-life balance.
