Judy Bruce
Studio #42 www.judybruceart.com
Judy Bruce Judy Bruce created the painting on the top right of the cover in her Cave Creek studio, which has been on the HITHs tour for nine years. Bruce has been a painter for 50 years and been doing art her entire life. As a process painter, she allows the images to emerge as she paints in her studio most every day. Her work is truly authentic. It is something she calls “human art” as it expresses aspects of the human condition in a single portrait painting. “I want my art to embrace the dichotomies encountered in life: beauty along with decay, joy along with sorrow, health along with sickness. There cannot be one without the other,” said Bruce. Her “Ravaged Face” series addresses the destruction caused by time, disease, love or death and at the same
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time joy, beauty, hope and peace coming out through pattern, line, texture and color in the same painting. These are done in mixed media and oil. Her “Vulnerable” series deals with people, young and old, male and female and their fragility whether overwhelming or buried deep inside. Many of her subjects are portraits and composites of students and their frailties and strengths. Bruce especially enjoyed working with special needs adolescents who found art to be uplifting and often life saving. Bruce enjoys sharing her “people” during Hidden in the Hills. Many are created using a printing press in a monotype process with mixed media (pastel, water color, collage, colored pencil, inks) added. She has several other series, many in oil and some pastel. Two additional artists will also be showing their work at her studio.