My landscape paintings have developed over the years in response to the powerful landscape around us. Also to a feeling of connection through the passage of time of its past inhabitants across the land, rather than a direct representation of the landscape.
For Jude, nature is not just a muse; it’s a source of profound inspiration. Her love for the great outdoors, from majestic mountains to the rhythmic waves of the sea, infuses her artwork with a sense of wonder and vitality. Jude’s paintings evoke the essence of these natural landscapes, capturing fleeting moments in time with breath taking detail.
“I feel that what challenges us now is the reality of nature – wild, uncomfortable, dirty, unpackaged, visceral experience, awakening our senses.”
Jude’s paintings are based on capturing the essence of feelings, emotions and the invisible, eternal energy that pervades in the universe, focusing on the sacred landscape or figure and it’s scarcity in current time. Inspired by nature, creating from a place of no time, no space, no body.
Jude creates her paintings through a process of applying pigments, oils, solvents and water pouring dripping, creating pools, then tilting and manoeuvring the canvas, creating a breeze causing the paint to move and evaporate. Just as water is a powerful factor in shaping the natural landscape, using the fluidity of the paint as part of the process resonates with this formation, layering paint, creating textures, leaving traces of whats below on the surface of the paint.
Just as the land and the natural world are made by chance, I try emulate this within my art practice. The drama and emotion I feel for the natural world, the rawness of the elements are evident within my paintings.
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