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After completing a four year BA course in Art and Design at Kingston Art School, Julia Page began her working life with a brief spell of scene painting for London’s Festival Ballet followed by a temporary contract in the Graphic Design Studio at Thames Television. Then came four years as Assistant Art Editor of the London Evening Standard Newspaper illustrating features and fashion articles. Next she began working from home as a freelance illustrator contributing to many London-based magazines such as ‘Woman’ and ‘Cosmopolitan’ whilst continuing in Fleet Street with a weekly drawing for the Daily Express cookery page. She produced four published cover designs for the Observer Magazine [ Village London, Village England, The Great Outdoors and the Great British Seaside ], posters for the World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace and Harper’s Bazaar and greetings cards on animal themes for Friends of the Earth and Portal Publications of California. She wrote and illustrated her own children’s book published by Methuen – ‘The Sheep and the Rowan Tree’. Based around her parents’ home in Inverness-shire the book became a runner-up in the Mother Goose Award. She then exhibited her book illustrations and other selected works at the Mother Goose Award Exhibition at the Commonwealth Institute in Kensington. Julia’s first solo exhibition was held at the Illustrators’ Art Gallery in London’s West End and her second in the Hampton Hill Playhouse. Her third was held at the Pool Gallery on the Isle of Colonsay, Argyll in August ’07 where she exhibited paintings and drawings with Colonsay as the theme . She also sold prints and cards featuring her paintings of the island’s cottages, flora and fauna.