Bio and CV
Artists Statement for Judy Tate
Judy Tate has been drawn to soft pastels for most of her painting life. She finds the versatility, immediacy and vibrancy hard to beat. Most recently the recurring themes are 'leaves and layers' - often initiated as an underpainting with monoprinting. Over time colour has become increasingly pivotal to her work.
En plein air sketching and painting gives Judy a platform for larger pastel work in the studio. Sketchbook travelogues are an ongoing source of inspiration.
Studio based work (often inspired by flowers and seed heads) can be of a more abstract nature. For this work she takes a looser approach is taken, particularly in the underpaintings. Recently she has been experimenting with using mono printing onto various pastel surfaces as her under painting.
Her studio work now seems to be combining the two branches of her work practice, with the recurring motif of ‘beyond ‘ and ‘behind’ often with paths going into infinity.
Judy Tate www.judytateartist.com
Judy works mainly in soft pastels often with mixed media underpaintings including collage
2005 – 2010
Open College of Arts
Flexible degree level Arts course, modules incuding Practice of Painting, Investigating Drawing, Studio Practice, Sustaining your Practice
Courses and Workshops attended since 2005:-
Various Workshops organised by The Pastel Society and Newly Art school
Also workshops on Abstraction, Oil painting, Acrylics Monoprinting and Collagraphy
Weekly life drawing group and workshops
Creative Activities
2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 - Work exhibited in the annual Pastel Society Exhibition at Mall Galleries in London
2010 to date - regular exhibitor at Gallery at 41 Dorset
2015 to date - regular exhibitor at Gallery on the Square Dorset
October 2021
* Juried into IAPS juried webshow - the 39th Open Division with 'Emerging'
* Juried in as Associate Member of the Pastel Society of America (PSA)
* Produced series of video tutorials for Unison Pastel Academy
September 2021 - article on soft pastels published in November edition of French bimonthly magazine Pratique des Artes
June 2021 co-founded society in west Dorset (www.casterbridgeartsociety.info). Responsible for arts programme, en ein air programme and exhibiting opportunties for the group
May 2021- Authored blog for Unison Pastels titled 'Entering the annual UK Pastel Society Exhibition'
April 2021 - Commissoned to design textiles for a leading US garment manufacturer
February 2021 - Juried into Collage Artists of America Parallel Dimensions Exhibition with 'Red Landscape' Pastel and collage painting
December 2020 - Award winner in Still Life/Floral category of PGE Open Online Pastel competition with 'The Crop' Soft Pastel
October 2020 - Juried into the IAPS (International Association of Pastel Societies based in the US) 37th exhibition with 'Empathy' Pastel painting
August 2020 - Published article in Pastel Journal titled "From Chaos to Order"
August 2020 - Selected as a Unison Associate Artist
2018/19 - Art trail organiser for Open for Art including organisation of a trail of 19 studios, opening own studio in 2019 and planning and curation of Duchy Group Exhibition for 85 artists and sculptors in Duchy Offices in Dorchester, Dorset
May 2019 - Guest Blogger on USA Gail Sibley website 'Abstract Wonderings- from chaos to order' on www.howtopastel.com
2017 - Selected to exhibit in Dorchester Open, Duke Gallery Dorchester
2017 - Dorset Artists exhibition at Lighthouse, Poole
2014 - 2017 - Trustee of Purbeck Art Weeks (PAW) for 3 years (annual fortnight arts trail). As only 2D artist representative on the board set up Visual Artists Forum - to facilitate better communication between participating artists (100 +) in the form of workshops, regular sketching events, social media etc . Also worked with web designer to improve the online artist registration system
2011 - 2016 - Held fortnight Open Studio for Purbeck Art Weeks in my home
2016 - Collaboration with RSPB at Arne, Dorset – including exhibition and organising ‘en plein air’ open studio for a fortnight and leading en plein air workshops
2015 - Featured artist at RHS Rosemoor, Devon
2015 - Exhibited at Society of Woman Artists, Mall Galleries London
Other
Currrently giving pastel workshops via Zoom
Regular workshops and demonstrations at Art Societies - including Poole and East Dorset (PEDAS), New Forest, Chandlers Ford, Broadstone. Wareham, Wimborne
Regular workshops for small groups in my studio (mixed media and pastels)
Participant in annual Art in the Open fortnight ‘en plein-air’ event Wexford Ireland
Paintings travelled to various parts of the world including USA, Italy, Croatia, Australia , Canada and Germany
Duchy Group Exhibition 2019