"Garden of Eden" Art Print by Julia Buckwalter

Julia was spotlighted as the 2021 Community Artist in the Parks. The majority of her painting time during that year was spent outside in one of our local parks, inspiring much of this body of work. Julia grew up in the Southwest, traveling throughout Utah’s parks and monuments in awe of the region’s sweeping landscapes and majestic skies. As a child, she entered contests at Utah’s Springville Art Museum and learned that creating art was a vocation. After living on both coasts and studying the Visual Arts, she returned West, settling in the desert to establish her craft. Julia paints with oil on canvas and panel, both en plein air and large-scale from photographs in the studio. She focuses on the dynamics of clouds in her skyscapes and the rich variations of color in her landscapes. “Moab’s landscape provides endless inspiration via the intense variation of colors found in nature. I am deeply inspired and affected by Maynard Dixon, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edgar Payne, the Post-Impressionist