Julie (Jules) Webster is an American landscape painter, b. 1983. A former potter and metalsmith, Jules approaches two-dimensional painting with a strong materials-based sensibility. She is an educator, entrepreneur, community arts advocate, art materials expert, and the owner/ founder of The Art Supply Depo. With two locations located in Sylvania + Bowling Green, Ohio, The Art Supply Depo provides high quality art materials, employment opportunity, exhibitions and educational workshops for adults and teens.  

Jules’ art practice is multi-faceted, oscillating between object making and community building. She creates large format studio-based landscape paintings that explore the optics of light, color, and color perception in the human eye using gardens and florals as a primary subject matter. Smaller Plein Air paintings and drawings are used as studies for larger works. She has two studios, a smaller studio in Naples, Florida, and her main studio in Ottawa Hills, Ohio.

Integral to her practice, she provides art education to people of all ages and skill levels on art material handling, painting, plein air, urban sketching, ceramic surface decoration, and arts entrepreneurship.  She facilitates free community workshops at the Sylvania library, The Depo and local schools, and helped to co-found & chair The Sylvania Plein Air Festival, sponsored by Red Bird Sylvania and The Art Supply Depo.

She is currently serving on The Edith Franklin Pottery Scholarship Committee, and as a board member and finance committee member for Red Bird Sylvania. She is a former board member of iAMart, an association of Independent Art Material Stores in the US and Canada, a current member of The Toledo School For the Arts Development Committee, and The Athena Art Society. She holds dual degrees with honors in Law and Social Thought and Fine Arts, focusing on Ceramics and Metalsmithing from The University of Toledo. She graduated in 2007 with the distinction of Outstanding Graduating Senior, the highest award bestowed by the Art Department in the College of Arts and Sciences (now Arts and Letters). Her ceramic work and paintings are held in predominantly private collections. She has two ceramic sculptures in the permanent collection of The University of Toledo.

In her free time, Jules enjoys studying landscape, garden, and floral design. A member of the local Wild Ones chapter, she is currently re-integrating native plants to her west Toledo property that will serve as inspiration and reference material for upcoming painting projects.