Julia talks about her creative process, working with paper and paint, and finding beauty in the overlooked details of home and harvest. A reflection on slowness, craft and seeing afresh.

With our upcoming bird of prey painting course, we return to this subject not only through practice, but through its lineage in art. Alongside working from life, we trace how artists across centuries have approached the raptor, from the precision of early natural history to the charged atmospheres of Romantic painting and the distilled forms of modernism. It offers a way of situating your own work within a longer tradition, understanding not just how to paint the bird, but how it has been seen, interpreted and reimagined over time.