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Judy Knifflin paints with watercolors and
with oils, exploring her natural surroundings — the woodlands, mountains, and waters, corners of her gardens, and streets in her towns.  Her style is representational, while always teasing out the rich colors and patterns that a cursory glance at nature often overlooks. The rendering of water, in all its layered complexities, offers an especially engrossing challenge.

In Judith's oils, an initial covering of warm
earth tones underlays the painting, peeking through in places and giving a rich warmth to the colors painted over it.  Her compositions draw you into its space, inviting your eyes to roam through its spatial planes and over its forms — and always, to revel in color.

She pursued studio painting at Skidmore College in New York, the Silvermine Guild Art Center in Connecticut, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

"For me, the process of painting is both a meditation on, — and thanksgiving for —
the natural beauty that surrounds us all.  It is this quiet sense of awe that I wish to convey through my paintings."

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Contact Judith
by phone: 802.447.2553
by email: paint@judykniffin.com
at http://www.judykniffin.com