Judith Schuppien
Gardiner, Maine
Judith is a MAINE ARTIST working in pastels. Her prize-winning works have been exhibited in many solo and group shows and have won several awards, including First Place in Pastel/Other Media at the Maine Open Juried Art Show in Waterville, Maine.
Judith spent her childhood in Milbridge, in Washington County, on the coast of Maine. Relatives there were, and are, lobster fishermen and clam diggers. As a child, she often played with her cousins on the shore, went out on the lobster boat, dug clams, and swam in the warm, shallow bays after hot days of raking blueberries.
Milbridge High School was where Judith attended school, in a three-room building with a bell on the roof, and no art program. Then came a scholarship to the University of Chicago, a degree in Fine Arts, and employment as a computer programmer. She met and married a very urban Chicago native and yet they both enjoy canoeing on the northern lakes, and watching the sunset over Matagamon Lake with the “same eyes.” After a career in programming, she is now transitioning to pursue art full-time.
Judith’s style is loose and expressive, presenting familiar subjects in a fresh and interesting way. Clear, vibrant colors, active lines, and strong compositions express emotional connections in her pieces.
Among her favorite subjects are:
-Farms and country places, including farm animals, especially chickens
-Lakes and forests of northern Maine
-Islands, boats and coastal villages.
The artist and her husband now live in East Pittston, on 120 very rural acres on the tidal Eastern River, with two cats and a small flock of chickens.
Those chickens frequently figure in her paintings, as well as the farmhouses, barns, fields and livestock of farming friends. Other influences in her painting come out of the blueberry fields of nearby Blinn Hill and Clarry Hill, as well as the barrens of Washington County. Coastal villages, such as Tenants Harbor, Bass Harbor, and Monhegan also serve as inspiration as charming and unspoiled as the Downeast seashore of many years ago.
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