Judy McLaren

An award-winning artist, Judy McLaren's primary focus has always been the painting of the figure, in portraiture and as a means of artistic expression. She has never been content with the repetition of a formula and has always pushed her own boundaries. She exhaults in the physical qualities of oil, playing with texture, line and colour, and encouraging the interplay between two and three-dimensionality. She encourages the happy accident that occurs when paint and canvas meet and thrives on the raw and emotive energy of the physical act of artistic creation. It is the dichotomy of expression between her abstract and figurative work that motivates her most as one discipline nourishes and stimulates the other.