Juju (Julie Ellis)
San Luis Valley, Colorado
Juju is a neurodivergent artist creating raw, textured work from emotion and intuition. Each piece is personal, sensory, and rooted in honest process.
Message
Julie "Juju" Ellis is a self-taught, neurodivergent artist whose work emerges from a place of sensory memory, ritual, and creative freedom. She builds each piece by layering texture and intention, often beginning with a raw emotional prompt or internal vision. Her methods are adaptive and ever-changing, shaped by both the rhythms of her nervous system and the stories stored in her body.
Born into a world that often demanded she mask her instincts, Juju reclaimed her creative voice later in life. Art became her way of speaking the unspeakable and honoring the nonlinear path of healing. Her process blends softness with structure, mysticism with matter-of-fact truth.
She now lives and creates on a high desert homestead, where wind, stillness, and natural light guide her studio flow. Her work is collected by those who resonate with vulnerability, wildness, and the quiet power of reclaiming self.
Statement
My art is how I unmask. Every piece begins with a feeling I cannot name and ends with something I can touch. I paint what is unspoken. I follow color and motion until something inside me settles.
I am a neurodivergent woman. That shapes everything. I work with texture because smooth surfaces feel dishonest. I pause when I need to stim. I use my whole body when I paint. There is no separation between my art and my way of being.
These pieces are personal. They carry my sensory world, my rituals, and the stories I was never given words for. But they are not closed. I believe in art as a conversation. If you see yourself in my work, it belongs to you too.