Untold Vistas
Posted on Mar 27, 2024Exhibition Opens 28th March – 28th April 2024
Venue – St Pauls Gallery, The Crossing, Darwall Street, Walsall WS1 1DA
About Jude
Jude lives and works in Walsall with her studio just around the corner from the New Art Gallery Walsall. Where she was exhibiting in a group show earlier this year. Jude’s paintings are exhibited internationally and her work is found in collections around the world.
Inspired by nature
Jude loves nothing more than a bracing walk in the countryside or on the beach, and when the weather is warmer a swim in the sea. I love the smells and sounds of the waves crashing along the shoreline, the way the sun glints on the water, how the weather changes in an instant. All my senses seem to be more alive when I’m at the coast and can be mesmerised by the shear force and power of the ocean.
Process
Jude is inspired and fascinated by nature, recalling places experienced or imagined as the work forms, creating from a place of no time, no space. Creating and using marks like an impressed memory, trying to recapture the essence of that moment. Jude constructs her images with multiple layering, but at the same time leaving space for surprise, for something unexpected to happen. Her paintings are created through a performative process of applying pigments, oils, creating pools, then tilting and manoeuvring the canvas. “Water is such a powerful force in shaping the natural landscape” and by using the fluidity of the paint in her process, it resonates with the ways in which the landscape is formed and eroded.
Private View Saturday 6th April 12pm – 2pm
All are welcome and I would love to see everyone at the Private View
Meet the Artist Days every Friday throughout the exhibition 11am – 3pm
Taster Workshop – Paint an Expressive Seascape Saturday 13th April 12pm -3pm