My interest is the human face and figure. At college I worked from models, and life drawing is a passion I have sustained to this day. I now paint mainly from photographs, using this secondary and 2D resource as a mnemonic stimulus. For me creation is a purely intuitive process, during which the paint actually becomes the subject as an act of transubstantiation. Oil paint lends itself peculiarly to the depiction of flesh: plastic; translucent; an earthy spectrum; skeins of pigment emulate the layering of nerves, muscle, skin that constitute the body. As I work, it seems that I allow rather than execute the image i.e. that it exists already within the paint in the same way that a sculptor might 'see' a figure within a block of marble.

Qualifications
BA Fine Art, St Martin's School of Art, 1987

Exhibitions
2015 Dashwoods Art Society, The Original Gallery, Haringey Park, N8

Other Activities
Fiction writing

Personal Website
judyclarkson@artweb.com