Judy Campbell grew up in the Chicago area where, as a child, she visited the museums and galleries. With a keen interest in both art and art history she went on to the University of Wisconsin where she received her BFA in 1971. Upon graduation she left the Midwest weather behind and moved to Colorado where she has remained. She lived in the mountains for a while where she could spend days skiing and hiking. In 1983 she moved to Boulder and while working in the computer industry and raising her two daughters she took up painting with a vengeance hoping to become a full time artist. Today she is a painter working out of her home studio in Denver.
She paints mostly large canvases beginning with geometric shapes - circles, lines, and squares. She then randomly fills the canvas with colors, she then adds collage elements of canvas, paper, and textures and then, as she drips, splatters, rubs and scratches the layers become more organic. For her each painting should be intriguing at close view but hold its own compositionally from a distance.
She is currently showing at galleries in Chicago, Santa Fe, Saugatuck Michigan and Denver. She also works with art consultants in various parts of the country. She enjoys her life as an artist and still, occasionally gets up to the mountains to ski and hike.
