Julea Hope Boswell is an award-winning Canadian artist who divides her time between Ottawa and Prince Edward Island. She has also lived in Toronto, Edmonton and Berlin.

Growing up on PEI, Julea’s expressive outlets included both visual and performing arts — and she has been creating art ever since. After an early career as a dance-artist, she added over 20 years of marketing, public engagement and arts management experience to her multifaceted accomplishments before transitioning to visual art as her primary focus. 

Boswell’s impressively varied portfolio of acrylic, watercolour and textile art is full of emotion, movement and colour. Working in a style she describes as “contemporary impressionistic abstract”, she is inspired by the beauty of nature and the creativity of other artists. Julea has collaborated artistically with dance artists of diverse bodies and minds, as well as musicians, composers, poets and academics. Her paintings may take you to the shore, to the dance floor, or to a place where art and nature interflow.

Julea's art has been exhibited at Agora Gallery and ArtExpo in NYC, in Toronto, Ottawa and Maritime shows, in performance and site-specific events, and is in collections internationally. She is a City of Ottawa Artist Grant recipient, Camelback Gallery award winner and has been invited to sit on arts award and exhibit juries.

Julea holds an MBA (Telfer School, University of Ottawa), a BFA in Visual Art, with distinction (Thompson Rivers University, BC) and a Diploma in Theatre, Dance (Toronto Metropolitan University).