The class is designed for the Painter
who wants to bring a painting to a finish Gallery Ready! It can be
a painting they have worked on previously or may be started in Class.
We break at 11 for a 10 minute show and tell which includes framing
advise or marketing information plus other interesting facts for
the professional Artist
A life-long resident of Monmouth
County who currently calls both Florida and New Jersey “home”,
Judy focuses on oil paintings of landscapes and seascapes. She
maintains studios both in Florida and New Jersey. Judy paints
from photographs and ein
plein air, often combining both techniques to complete a painting. Her
approach to landscapes and seascapes is impressionistic in nature
representing the full range of colors, values and light found only
in nature. She often includes interaction of people and activities
in her scenes providing a more intimate relationship between the
beauty of nature and the touch of man.
“Judy Stach’s work is full of color and lively with
impressionistic brushwork. Her love of water is evident as
is her passion for light that fills her work.”
- Timothy
R. Thies
Over the past twenty years, Judy has
received training from a number of outstanding artists. She studied privately for almost
two decades with Anthony Ventura. She has also worked with
the Plein Air Painters of America. In 2003 and 2006, Judy received
a rare invitation to join Richard Schmid and Nancy Guzik to paint
in Vermont with the Putney Painters. Other experiences include
still life and live model oil painting with master painter David
Laffel at the Art Students League in New York, painting ein plein
air and in a studio with Timothy Thies in New Jersey, Vermont,
Arizona and Florida and plein air painting at Epcot in the Walt Disney
World in 2005 and 2006 at the invitation of the company. Judy
has painted throughout Florida with the Plein Air Painters of the
Treasure Coast, with whom she is a Signature Member. She is
also an Artist Member of the Salmagundi Club.
Her paintings were featured in The
Artist’s Magazine January
2000 issue, the cover of the Commonwealth Courier Spring 2000
publication, the Summer 2005 edition of the Jersey Shore Vacation
Magazine and Long Beach Island Rhapsody. Her work
and commentary about her ten-year retrospective in June 2006 entitled “Living
the Dream” were featured in The Hub and The Two River
Times. Judy has also been featured in Plein Air
Magazine both individually (2004) and in connection with The
Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast (2005), a group she founded
in 2004.
Judy is represented by The Lambertville
Gallery of Fine Art in Lambertville, New Jersey, the Meghan Candler
Gallery in Vero Beach, Florida and the Horne and Thistle Gallery
in Savannah, Georgia. Her works
are also available in New Jersey at the Guild Of Creative Art in
Shrewsbury, the Thistledown Gallery in Spring Lake and the Main Street
Gallery in Manasquan. Judy is a listed artist in the Biographical
Encyclopedia of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers of the
US. She is also a listed artist in Who’s Who in
American Art, 2007 edition.
As a Jersey Shore native, Judy has lived
most of her life on or around water. In recent years, with the purchase of a home
in Vero Beach, she has mixed her time painting in the intense colors
that occur in Florida during the winter and the more subdued but
equally compelling tones that the dreariest winter months produce
in the North. The result has been a palette of softer tones
that now are a major factor in her work.
