Juliet Walshe was born in Hertford, Hertfordshire. Her foundation course was at St Alban's College of Art and Design which she completed in 1987. In 1991 she graduated from the Slade School with a BA in Fine Art.

After a 20 year administrative career, she has moved to Falmouth, where she is currently attending the MA Fine Art: Contemporary Practice course at Falmouth College of Art. (2012)

All of the paintings and prints shown in her March (2012) exhibition in the Third Room of the New Street Gallery, Penzance, were of beaches in and near Falmouth, Penryn, the Fal and Helford Estuary.  Also of South Cornwall subjects included the coastal stretches between Helston, Loe Bar, Porthleven and Penzance.