She's just one of those people who loves to play with paint, and her love shows. Among other things, art should bring you into a world outside your own experience. She furthered her knowledge of the latter when she attended the Rhode Island School of Design. Indian gods and goddesses show up in her small works, the female figures sometimes floating, unfettered. Loosely painted and diaphanous, the murals comprise a range of paints that create open, haunting imagery that makes no particular sense but which is compelling and draws you in.
Figures float, colors seem to shift, and the effect is nearly hallucinatory.
Julie Roberts's work may not be hallucinatory but is unsettling just the same, a kind of Dr. Jekyll-Mr. The rug supports three chairs, a lovely little table and a young corpse. There's much to imagine in these scenes, which are dark, mysterious and unsettling. It's enough to make the viewer question Roberts's belief in God. Around 40 years ago, the idea that people should dredge up their nightmares, rather than try to bury them, became popular.