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.

Julie Himel’s CV

Julie Himel Seasonal Amnesia

Seasonal Amnesia  2021
Oil on canvas  48″ x 48″
$5,400.00

 

Julie Himel It Shines On

It Shines On  2021
Oil on canvas  36″ x 36″
$3,200.00

 

Julie Himel Elemental Surround

Elemental Surround  2021
Oil on canvas  48″ x 48″
$5,400.00

 

Julie Himel When Magic

When Magic  2021
Oil on canvas  48″ x 48″
$5,400.00

 

Julie Himel Noble Sanctuary

Noble Sanctuary  2021
Oil on canvas  40″ x 40″
$4,300.00

 

Julie Himel Give Yourself Away

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

 

Julie Himel Elusive Ascension

Elusive Ascension  2021
Oil on canvas  48″ x 40″
$5,100.00