"Specific location has been crucial to my most recent work as I continue to
focus on the significance of place and history within the landscape.
Over the past 18 months, curiosity about my late father’s experiences in
Normandy during WWII gave me the opportunity to explore a new and
unique environment. I felt an overwhelming sensation painting in and
around the battlefields which time has camouflaged into sometimes
strange and beautiful vistas. My work is born from fleeting glimpses
of the landscape, and exposure to the elements of new surroundings, not picture
postcard recordings of any particular vistas, but more a memory of an
experience, a culmination of many remembered and hidden elements
of the landscape, merged together to embody a sense of place.
My work has evolved dramatically from small-scale pieces that focus on my
sensory experiences of a landscape, to larger scale work in a subdued palette
with reductive details and simplified structural planes. I regard my work as
evocative meditations on time and duration, as well as the themes of
personal and historical memory. The details I omit are as significant as what
has remained, emerging patterns of abstract areas, blocks of colour and
sometimes bare canvas, which need to be evaluated and edited for the sake
of the overall composition, becoming it’s own, embodying a sense of place, self-dictating, and
striving towards a beauty that is right."
From an interview with Judith Green for "Painting Perceptions"
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Biography:
Judith Green has a BA(Hons) in Graphic Design from Kingston School of Art and studied painting at The Slade School of Art. Following a successful career as an Art Director, in 1984 she co-founded the international award winning design consultancy, The Green House.
In 2000, she made the decision to relinquish her full-time design career to focus on painting and in 2001 was awarded a place on the Drawing Year MA level program at The Prince's Drawing School. She later went on to complete a Founder's portrait of Mr J. Whittaker CBE for the school in 2008 which is now in HRH The Prince of Wales' private collection. In 2009 Judith was awarded a residency at Kensington Palace.
She has exhibited work at The Threadneedle Prize, The Lyn Painter-Stainers Prize, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Discerning Eye, The Royal Academy of Arts and was shortlisted for the John Moore's Painting Prize 26 & 24. She has work in numerous private collections in the UK, USA and Israel.
Solo Exhibitions:
2008
- "In Hold Of The View", Highgate Gallery, London
- "Distance", Musée de la Battaille de Tilly-sur-Seulles, Normandy
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2011
- The New Gallery, Portscatho, Cornwall
2010
- RWA 158 Autumn Exhibition, Bristol
- Summer Exhibition, Medici Gallery, London
- People and Places 1, Ruth Addinall & Judith Green, Medici Gallery, London
- New Year Exhibition, Medici Gallery, London
2010, 2009, 2008
- Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, London
2009
- The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London
2008, 2006, 2003
- The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2007, 2006
- Highgate Fine Art, London
2006, 2005, 2004
- Originals, The Contemporary Printmaking Show, Mall Galleries, London
2005, 2004
- Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2004, 2003
- Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London
2003, 2002
- Royal Institute Of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London
- National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2003, 2000
- The Slade Gallery, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2002
- Post Graduate Diploma show, The Prince’s Drawing School, London
Judith at work in her studio