June Bartlett first arrived in the U.A.E. in 1979 – and first showed her work in the Gulf at the British Trade Fair in Dubai. Since then she has regularly exhibited at several different venues including the Majlis Gallery.
She is known predominantly as a landscape painter but she is also highly regarded for her portraiture. In 1980 she was commissioned to paint the portrait of HH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the U.A.E. and Ruler of Abu Dhabi, and has since completed portraits of HH Sheikh Isa bin Sulman Al Khalifa of Bahrain, (1983) and HM Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman, (1995).