Juliet Guillon was born in 1980 in Birmingham, UK. She attended Canterbury Christchurch University and achieved a BA:1 in Fine Art. She was also awarded the Overseas’s Tutor’s Prize for her degree show.

While she was a secondary school teacher across the West Midlands, she continued to paint and sell work privately across the region. Recently, she left teaching to focus on painting.

She produces images of the world around her; landscapes, portraits and still-lifes are all encompassed. Artistically, she is often pulled by freely emotional strokes of artists like Kossoff and Soutine but this is restrained by a need to create a discernible image. Juliet firstly maps out the composition, working from sketches and photographs where it is not possible to work from life, and then she applies colour, building the surface into a patchwork of paint. The artist’s aim is to offer the viewer a recognisable, yet emotional, experience of an everyday scene, such as dense foliage within a garden or a moment of calm down a suburban street.