Will Julsing (1942 - 2006) was a Dutch Canadian artist born in Groningen, Holland during the Nazi occupation. During his younger years he studied at the Groningen Academy of Art, and later at the Academy of Art in Utrecht, where in 1963 he was the recipient of the Rozenthal Award.

During the mid to late 1960s Julsing began doing commercial work for the Amsterdam International Designers Group, working on projects including the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Saudi Arabia, a Belgian monastery, and the High Academy of Technology in Leiden.

In 1966, Julsing was chosen as one of 20 painters to represent Holland in a European tour. In 1967 he emigrated to Canada, settling on Vancouver Island where, apart from touring his work across North America, he lived and painted out of his studio 'Mariposa' for decades until his passing in 2006.

Julsing came from a school of painting which attempts to delve beneath the surface of specific cultures and reveal through archetypal image the psychological truths which underlie all human experience. There is often an eerie separateness and moody alienation cloaking the somber figures in his works, though so too is there beauty and optimism to be found in the brilliant colours.