Judith was raised in the Kootenay region of British Columbia; remote, rural, and urban experiences influence her ideas and activities.Her art career gained momentum as her role as a community health nurse/educator drew to a close.Diploma studies at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia (B.C.) served to focus and further Judith’s artistic explorations as her t children undertook independent lives.Judith and her partner divide precious time between their environmentally friendly life at a remote wilderness setting in central British Columbia and a quiet studio location in Quesnel, B.C.

Judith’s approach to life and art can best be summarized as exploratory.Life, work and travels have taken her from the Arctic to Antarctica.While living and working with her spouse in Chile (1997 - 2000) she visited many areas of South America.Here, awareness grew concerning the interrelationship of persons with their natural settings: often manifested through cultural undertakings, including art making.A bolder sense of form, dramatic colour and emotional, expressionistic images of person and place became more evident in her art works.

The awe, excitement and humility evoked by extensive experience in Canada’s High Arctic (1988, 1991) preceded Judith’s dismay about the changes imposed upon arctic peoples and places.Impressions from varied arctic encounters were the basis for an earlier series of exhibited paintings.A wide ranging voyage undertaken in 2006 provided the artist with fresh perceptions of Inuit peoples, their communities and wilderness havens in Nunavut and Greenland.This excursion further shaped her life and artresulting in the ongoing development of a new series of works titledPolar Perspectives.

Judith exhibits art work in private and public galleries in Chile and Canada.Her exhibition history scans nineteen years with a total of seventeen solo exhibits and participation in fifty-four group exhibits to date.Her paintings are represented in British Columbia at Kelowna’s Hambleton Galleries and the Breeze & Gold Gallery in Quesnel.

Judith states, “I believe, as do others, that person and place are inextricably interwoven entities.I hope that my art works will heighten awareness of the beauty and imminent perils in the fragile web of life while underscoring our collective need to be thoughtful, wherever we are.”