"CATCHING DREAMTALES" A Childs Journey in Prose and Pictures
A child finds a little mirror hidden on a muddy pathway and so begins a quest for the deepest question
"who am I?"
He question takes her on a spirited journey to places which are actual haunts of the artist's own childhood memories and places which were special "where magic happens"
and the veil of reality grows thin
This book is not only for children but for those of us who still connect to the magic of childhood

Julie de Bastion was born in Stratford upon Avon in 1948 of Hungarian parentage. She studied at the Central School of Art London. In 1973, she relocated to the United States, where she obtained a First Class Honors degree (summa cum laude) in painting and printmaking at the F.I.T. in New York City and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1983. In 1984, she was one of the first to win a scholarship to the Johnson Studio School (now the Johnson Centre) in Vermont. In 1989, she returned to the U.K. and continues to work as an artist and educator. Her work has been shown internationally and throughout the U.K.