Artist: Julie Eldredge Dykens

Juliw is an artist who owns the Local Color Art Gallery in West Chatham. She is a native Cape Codder having grown up in Chatham and having attended Chatham Schools.

Julie majored in Studio Art at Smith College after a stint as an offshore commercial fisherwoman and a seafood wholesaler.

Julie’s art reflects her deep love of the natural world here in Chatham and on Cape Cod.

She works primarily in flat clay reliefs and in wooden sculpture. Both mediums are inspired by her experiences on the ocean and tending to inshore waters and the shoreline. Her works are detailed and, at times, whimsical.

Julie lives in West Chatham with her husband, Jeff. They have three children and two beautiful grandchildren.