ARTIST STATEMENT:
My work often starts with something I’ve seen, and sometimes something I think I’ve seen. Influenced always by my surroundings. Even though I may begin with a flower, a vessel and colours I’ve seen in a book or on a poster, or in the landscape that is where it ends. The next thing that happens is unexpected and is purely my imagination. So I think still life paintings should always be on the move… Thus my flying flowers, flat vessels with no front or back, colours that aren’t vessels and so on! Also, I’m hoping my Unstill Life Movement recently started, to which I am currently the only member, will take off!
BIOGRAPHY:
Born in Ireland, Judith spent most of her childhood and adult years in the south of England. With a degree in fashion, her experience of life drawing led to an initial interest in figurative work. Over time, this interest morphed into portraiture. More recently, Judith fell in love with still life but works only from her imagination. If asked why, she would probably say that a still life set up somehow changes into something completely different...!
To side step the (near) photorealism of many who work in this genre, she chooses instead to paint instantly recognisable objects (but perhaps with a difference!). To a vase of flowers, she adds her sense of movement and fun. This approach gives her work a playful and dynamic feel which makes her paintings instantly approachable and often a point of conversation.
She primarily works in oils on canvas and uses palette knives to give texture. If she was asked, she would say that her most liked paintings come from painting over a pretty poor one...!
