BIOGRAPHY

Julie O'Neil, founder/owner of tisjewel Art Creations & Alluring-Designs, is originally from Mililani, O'ahu Hawaii, but has traveled to and lived in various places worldwide such as overseas in Berlin, Germany, to USA West Coast El Cajon, California, to East Coast Edenton, North Carolina, and a few states in between.  Currently she resides in the South Denver area of Colorado.

Julie is a full-time freelance web designer/developer with approximately 8 years of independent web designing/development and graphic arts experience.  In addition, she has a lifetime of art exposure (including various artisans throughout her family line), which attributes to her strong desire to keep the creative juices flowing, resulting in an ongoing hobby of a variety of artwork. Creating websites and physical artwork, though, is much more that just an occasional hobby for her, it is an alternate way to express her creative spirit. She is compelled to follow this exciting and rewarding path.

COLLAGE / MIXED MEDIA ART

My first experience with collage /assemblage art as an adult was through my college art history class.  At first I was unsure of how to approach the project.  We were told to look through art magazines and create a collage about our lives.  When it came time to present our work in class, all of the collages were displayed on the wall of the classroom, I was shocked to see that my collage was completely different from everyone elses.  Of course, when the instructor got to my work, she asked the class "What collage stands out, is different from the rest of them" -- then she asked me how I had come up with the piece.  Most of the others had done the typical collage compositions, combining words images, etc., however, mine was a collage of different patterns arranged abstractly into a skyscape and landscape broken up by an image of a head with a "world" balanced upon it.&n