ISSUE 2 . APRIL 2017

Interview Julie Morin
Let’s dive in at the beginning of your story.
Tell me about where you grew up and what
your childhood was like.
I was born in Paris but grew up in the South
of France on the French Riviera. When I was
in high school I literally spent my afternoons
after class at the beach, so it wasn’t bad at all!
I grew up with a sister and two loving parents.
I had everything I could dream of. I took my
first painting class when I was 4 years old, and
also practiced Ballet and the piano for 8 years.
Everything was perfect, until the day I lost my
little sister to a drunk driver on new year’s eve.
That day my world collapsed, and it took me
years to accept the fact that she was gone. When
it happened, I was barely an adult, and I had
to run away to still enjoy my youth and put this
aside as it was too painful to deal with. I entered
a Business School, forgot about art for a lot of
years and traveled the world for my studies.
Describe your path to becoming an artist.
The Business School I attended wasn’t the
best part of my life. I met wonderful people
there, who are still my dear friends, but for the
rest, I was bored and felt like I didn’t belong
there. Nevertheless, I did not listen to my
feelings and started working in Marketing in
big multinational companies, selling products
that I did not believe in. I guess I pushed my
body too far for too long because one day I fell
ill and had to stop all activity. They diagnosed
me with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, also called
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. I was stuck at home,
incapable of doing anything, and suddenly I felt
this huge creativity imploding inside of me that
needed to get out. So I took a paintbrush and
started painting, exactly 10 months ago.
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