Julia Buckwalter
B. 1984
2002-2003: Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2004-2005: Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA 2005-2005: University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2005-2007: Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA 2007: B.A. Visual Arts, Painting & Drawing 2019: Cover art “Mt. Sinai” for author Chuck Greaves 2021: April - October: Resident Artist for Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Natural Bridges & Hovenweep National Monuments
2022: Published in the Utah Dictionary of Artists written by Dr. Vern Swanson, former Curator/ Director of the Springville Museum of Art 2022: Cover art “The Journey Home” for author Nancy Takacs 2022: June - December Solo Show at The John Wesley Powell River History Museum 2025: Cover art “Distant Treasure” for Deep Wild Journal
About the Artist
Artist Julia Buckwalter is a resident of Moab, Utah, and was awarded the distinction of 2021 Artist in the Parks by the Canyonlands Natural History Association for the Southeast Utah group. This region encompasses Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Natural Bridges National Monument and Hovenweep National Monument.
Born in Cairo, Egypt, she then spent childhood in Utah, traveling often throughout the Southwest in awe of yet another desert’s sweeping landscapes and majestic skies. After living on both coasts and acquiring a degree in the Visual Arts for Painting at Pennsylvania State University, she returned to the West and Moab to establish her craft.
Working primarily with oil on canvas in the studio, her painterly style draws from years of emotion and memory, her large canvases carrying the sensation of being “windows” in time. Whether watching storms roll in across the horizon on road trips or spending extended time throughout her life at Georgia O’Keeffe’s Ghost Ranch, the desert has been a source of endless artistic inspiration. Ever-changing shapes of sky, rich variations of hues found in “red” rock, winding rivers, mountains, and the emotionality of the landscape all find their way into her studio.
Additional painterly influences include European colorists Gauguin and Matisse, and American Western artists Maynard Dixon and Edgar Payne.
Her work is frequently sourced for promotional use by the Moab Office of Tourism, and can be seen at Arches National Park, Dead Horse Point State Park, Moab Under Canvas, and Moab Springs Ranch.
Downtown Moab locations where originals are sold: Moab Made, The Press, and Moab Springs Ranch. Prints and postcards are available at these locations as well as Dead Horse Point State Park, Back of Beyond Books, Gearheads, and Cow Canyon Coffeehouse in Bluff, Utah.