About me.

I am a figurative painter and curator working from direct observation. Echoing her background in graphic design, she uses a scaffold of drawing to explore the compositional forces of a painting, forming an understanding of the environment before translating it into a two-dimensional image.

In 2001 she was awarded a place on ‘The Drawing Year’ postgraduate programme, at the Royal Drawing School, London. Since 2002 she has exhibited regularly including The Threadneedle Prize, RA Summer Exhibition, The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, The ING Discerning Eye, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal West Academy, Royal Society of Oil Painters and Royal Society of British Artists, Project Gallery, Arundel, Medici Gallery, Cork Street London, The Wykeham Gallery, Stockbridge, Highgate Contemporary Gallery, Tregony Contemporary, Cornwall and recently at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co Mayo, Ireland. Judi was awarded The Moritz – Heyman Artist Residency At Borgo Pignano, Italy in 2023, and was Artist in Residence at Dumfries House, Scotland in 2015 and Kensington Palace, London in 2009. Judi’s work can be found in numerous private collections in Britain, America and the Middle East, including The Royal Collection, Dumfries House, The Peninsula Hotel, Belgravia, London, Dawn French, Sir Clive Woodward OBE, Moritz-Heyman Collection, Pignano Italy, Mr. Anthony Van Laast MBE OBE and Sir Lenny Henry OBE.

“My paintings and drawings, I invite viewers to experience a place through a long, contemplative gaze, with shapes and colours that speak to a quiet resonance beneath the surface. Whether in the Cornwall landscape or the Italian countryside, I aim to connect with the stillness and rhythm of the world around me, creating work that draws out both the beauty of my surroundings and the unique perspective I bring to them. I seek a balance between detailed observation and expressive mark-making, allowing traces of re-evaluation and contemplation to remain visible on the page. Each line and layer is a testament to the act of seeing, a process of continual refinement”.

Judi was born in London and now lives and works in Cornwall and founded in 2015 Tregony Contemporary, an artist -run gallery in St Mawes. She studied Graphic Design at Kingston School of Art and spent over two decades working as a Creative Director in the design and advertising industry. In 1997 she turned her focus back to painting and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art.