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Bio:
I have been fortunate to have grown up and continue to live in an environment that feeds my curiosity and need to explore and experiment. I am surrounded by the natural beauty and restorative nature of the sea, shore, and nearby woodlands of the New England seacoast. I benefit from this place where chaos and order, color and texture meld together in a million ways.
I began my art interest as lessons in oil painting and drawing in my early youth. When I settled down to “familyhood” my own two children were ever patient and supportive as I endeavored to be creative in many different forms. As time allowed I tried my hand as a weaver, spinner, dyer, basket maker, landscaper, garden designer and always the doodler. These endeavors occasionally made for very late dinners which we have all survived and for which they say I have been forgiven. I now am owned by two cranky cats who are not patient and complain without mercy when the same happens to them.
Artist Statement:
My work is based on the intrigue of intersection both physical and metaphysical which leads me on an ever evolving journey.
I become both a construction engineer and an archeologist as I pursue an idea. I must both destroy and create during the process of allowing a piece to have its own voice. I am successful when I have been forced to explore, expand and stretch to allow a new layer of understanding of my original inspiration. Often it is a surprise to me where I have finished.
Cultivated by a lifetime of immersion in the natural world, I make use of images and icons, along with my own intrinsic sense of shape, color and texture to support imaginary landscape and still life work.
I find deep satisfaction in weaving details with ambiguity and clarity with mystery.
Your participation in viewing and allowing your mind to be led into a new world, to wonder and question, completes the process of investigation and exposure.
Judith Andrews, Kittery, Maine USA
