Julie Houck

Paia, Hawaii

Julie Houck, Dordogne Farm, 12 x 16" oil

Julie Houck is a painter of the effects of light and atmosphere in the landscape. "I am primarily interested in the transmission of light in my paintings."

Following a successful 16-year career as a professional photographer, where her specialty was photographing people on location, Julie decided to pursue her lifelong dream of being a painter. Julie’s art education was based on studying classical principles of direct observation of color, light and form relationships in nature. She studied at the Atelier of Classical Realism in San Francisco with David Hardy, the Academy of Fine Art in Seattle with Anthony Ryder and most recently, in France, at the L’Ecole Albert Defois with Ted Seth Jacobs.

Julie’s paintings are exhibited extensively in Hawaii. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the Hawaii State Art Museum. She was one of the featured artists at the commemorative "Artists of Hawaii" exhibit at the Honolulu Academy of Art in 2000 and has been juried into Art Maui six times.

She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the David Warren Memorial Scholarship Grant, a Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Acquisition Award as well as exhibition prizes for painting. A well-respected and popular instructor, Julie also teaches plein air painting on Maui and in France.

Her website is at www.juliehouck.com.