Julie Martini is a visual artist, whose work is rooted in papermaking and paper crafts. She has developed a unique process that combines materials and methods from eastern and western marbling traditions, dating from the 12th century, with techniques from painting, printmaking, and papermaking. Her work explores the interplay of chance and intention.

Water, pigment, and breath are used to create each work. The process begins with drops of acrylic paint on a liquid bath. The paint is induced to spread, move, and fragment by successive layers of paint and surfactants.  The “floating painting” is then transferred to paper, and the final pieces are painted or printed on, and sometimes torn, cut and recombined.

Julie’s sculptures begin with hand-built clay forms, hand drawn matrix’s, or 3d scans that are manipulated with digital modeling/fabrication.

Her work includes references to NASA images, microscope photography, music, and humanist writing.

Her studio is in Jamaica Plain, MA.