Julia Heseltine, the daughter of Anna Zinkeisen, studied with Byam Shaw and the Royal Academy Schools.

She began painting at an early age; at just 15 years old she was commissioned by Babers shoe shop to do a mural of fairy tales, and in the same year she did her first portrait commission of Jonathan Porritt (friends of the Earth) aged 4.

From then on, Julia continued to work as an artist, showing work alongside her husband, the sculptor, Anthony Weller (who died in 1991). Winner of the Medaille D’Argent at the Paris Salon Julia has been commissioned by Sir Lawrence Olivier, Joan Plowright, the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, and the Hon Alan Clark MP to paint their portraits.

Julia’s work has a tranquil dream like quality, yet underneath there is an element of mystery and something slightly unsettling. There is the feeling that there is something happening which the viewer can’t quite see in each scene which captivates the imagination.