Julie Himel carries a Diploma of Fine Art from Langara College in Vancouver, a Bachelor of Fine Art Honours Degree from York University, and a Graduate Diploma from the Toronto School of Art. Her award winning paintings can be found in private collections internationally, public collections including The University of Calgary, Calgary’s Civic Art Collection, Westfield State University, the Armenian Centre Art Collection Canada, and several corporate collections nationwide.
Himel’s work is about human experience. And in that theme, she looks closer, to the elements of that experience, to worlds lived and imagined, the spiritual and the emotional, memory and promise. Her study of space is rooted in the understanding of landscape as both an encounter and an image. It’s in the balancing act of grounding and departure—always looking for the light through the tangle of life. It’s in decay, not as destruction, but as catalyst: a signpost for renewal, growth and reclamation. And it’s in honesty, about creating a portrait of landscape as it is: something apprehended and unknowable. Paint is the medium she uses to formalize the possibility of a place—a place alive, mutable and shared, a character in our collective unconscious.
Seasonal Amnesia 2021
Oil on canvas 48″ x 48″
$5,400.00
It Shines On 2021
Oil on canvas 36″ x 36″
$3,200.00
Sudden Notice of Forever 2021
Mixed media on canvas 40″ x 40″
$4,300.00
Elemental Surround 2021
Oil on canvas 48″ x 48″
$5,400.00
When Magic 2021
Oil on canvas 48″ x 48″
$5,400.00
Noble Sanctuary 2021
Oil on canvas 40″ x 40″
$4,300.00
Give Your Self Away 2021
Oil on canvas 36″ x 36″
$3,200.00
For Keeps 2021
Mixed media on canvas 24″ x 24″
$2,000.00
Elusive Ascension 2021
Oil on canvas 48″ x 40″
$5,100.00