She took up painting when her children had grown up and has been painting enthusiastically ever since. She paints in oils and gains her inspiration from the Sottish Landscape and from around her home on Loch Lomond. She paints and travels regularly with a group of artists based in Stirlingshire.She has exhibited in Glasgow, Central Scotland and London and her work is in private collections around Scotland. Julie Briggs is a member of the Glasgow Society of Women Artists.