Julie Heffernan paints elaborate and beautiful paintings. Paintings with powerful, yet hidden, messages.
Her work is inspired by the world between wake and dreaming, a place many have searched for creative inspiration through‒out history. Julie refers to the process of looking to half‒dream, half‒reality images as “image streaming” and has found it to be a unique source of inspiration.
In an interview with Nicole Pasulka, Julie explains image streaming:
I started to notice that as I would relax and go into a fade‒away state before sleep, I would be dreaming these images from nowhere that wouldn’t relate to anything I had seen in the day or was painting at the time; they would come to me like a movie. Francis Bacon talks about it, a lot of people do. I would just kind of watch this movie and think, “Oh my goodness this is so much more interesting than what I’ve been painting.”
Click here to read the full interview and learn more about Julie Heffernan, her paintings, and how she explores the world between dreams and reality.