Images of Judy Stach Painting:

4/30/2005 - 5/1/2005:
Walt Disney World
Flower and Garden Expo at Epcot

"Judy Stach’s work is full of color and lively with impressionistic brushwork. Her love of Nature and especially her rendering of water is evident as is her passion for the light that fills her work.”

- Timothy R. Thies

A life-long resident of Monmouth County, New Jersey, who currently calls both Florida and New Jersey home, Judy focuses on oil paintings of landscapes and seascapes. She maintains studios in Florida and New Jersey. She loves painting small works in the open air, also known as plein air studies, often combining these with photo references to complete a larger painting in her studio. Her approach to landscapes and seascapes is impressionistic representing the full range of colors, values, and light found only in Nature.

Judy is inspired to paint the fascinating interplay of light and shadow. She often includes the interaction of people and activities in her scenes to express the intimate relationship between nature and man.

Over the past eighteen years, Judy has received training from a number of outstanding artists. She has studied privately with Anthony Ventura for almost two decades and has taken workshops with the Plein Air Painters of America. She has studied still life and figurative oil painting with master artist, David Leffel at the Art Students League in New York and plein air painting with Timothy R. Thies in Vermont, Arizona, and Florida. Most recently she completed a five-day figurative workshop with Timothy R. Thies at the Scottsdale Artists School in Arizona. In addition, Judy has painted throughout Florida with the Plein Air Painters of the Treasure Coast.

In 2003, Judy received a rare invitation from Richard Schmid to paint with a group of artists known as the Putney Painters at the Village Arts of Putney and on location in southern Vermont. Her works were featured in The Artist’s Magazine January 2000 issue and on the cover of the Commonwealth Courier Spring 2000 issue. In addition, her work was featured in the Summer 2005 edition of the Jersey Shore Vacation Magazine. She 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 the Spring of 2004.

She is represented by the Charlotte Flinn Gallery in Vero Beach, Florida, the Lambertville Gallery of Fine Art in Lambertville, New Jersey, and the Main Street Gallery in Manasquan, New Jersey. Judy is a listed artist in the Biographical Encyclopedia of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers of the US.

About the Artist and Painting Paradise

“I start every day in prayer.” The world is such a beautiful place that I find it hard to choose what to select and where to start when I begin a painting. The camera helps me to decide. It puts a frame around all that my senses take in. However, the light and color can only be captured on location or en plein air.”

A New Jersey native, she has lived most of her life on or around water. In recent years, with the purchase of a home in Vero Beach, she has spent time painting 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 softer palette that has become a major direction in her work.

“God is indeed the most powerful of artists. His paintings and color combinations are lessons I seek to learn every waking hour.”

When asked which season or time of the day is best to paint, her response indicates the positive and uplifting mood that pervades her work and her life. “I paint because it gives me life. I feel that there is another life that lives within me that only comes out when I am in the process of painting. The most perfect time is when the spirit moves me. If one looks for beautiful things and colors they can easily be found at any time of day and in every season. However, I focus more on the light of day than on nocturnal scenes because I feel more a part of life in the light than in darkness.”

Education

Mount Ida Chamberlain College, Newton MA. Associate of Arts with Honors

Juried Exhibitions and Awards:
• Art by the Sea, Vero Beach Museum of Art, 2005
• American Impressionist Society, Juried Show, 2004 (FL), 2005 (NM)
• The American Artists Professional League, Summer Exhibition, NY 2004
• The Boulder (CO) Art Association National Juried Show 2003
• Progress Energy Florida Invitational 2003
• Guild of Creative Art (NJ) 10th Annual Juried Show 2002
• 2002 Florida Invitational, Main Street Gallery, Perry, Florida
• The OCAG (NJ) 18th Juried Show 2002
• The New Jersey Chapter of the American Artists Professional League, 2000 State Show
• The Artist’s Magazine, Landscape Competition 2000, Second Place
• Seventh Annual Open New Jersey State Show 1998
• Monmouth County (NJ) Arts Council Juried Show 1998, 2004
• Sixth Annual Open New Jersey State Show 1997
• Island Heights (NJ) Art Guild 1997
• Ocean County (NJ) Arts Center Regional Show 1996

Media and Publications:

• Asbury Park Press (NJ), Featured story “Different Strokes” 1999
• The Artist’s Magazine, “Artists on the Rise” 2000
• The Hub (Red Bank, NJ), Zest for Living Section, “Painting pictures, teaching artists, shaping lives” 2000. Also a feature on the Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast in 2004
• Two River Times (Red Bank, NJ), “Observations and Interpretations” 2001
• Listed artist in The Biographical Encyclopedia of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers of the US
• The Colts Neck Journal (NJ), “Guild of Creative Art Features Three Artists in July” 2003
• Two River Times, “Two River People” Section, 2003. Also a feature on the Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast in 2004
• Plein Air Magazine, “Plein Air Scout”, December, 2004; “Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast – Sea of Dreams”, January, 2005

Exhibitions and Galleries:

• Backus Gallery, Ft. Pierce, FL 2004
• Guild of Creative Art (NJ), Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast, 2004
• Guild of Creative Art (NJ), Two Woman Show 2003
• Guild of Creative Art, Solo Show 2001
• The Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NY 2000, 2001
• Guild of Creative Art, Master Tony Ventura and Students Show 2000
• Jersey Shore Medical Center 2000
• Guild of Creative Art, Solo Show 1998
• Poricy Park (NJ) Nature Center, featured artist 1998
• Hall of Records, Freehold, NJ 2002, 2003
• Charlotte Flinn Gallery, Vero Beach, FL 2002 to 2005
• Lambertville Gallery of Fine Art, Lambertville, NJ 2001 to present
• Main Street Gallery, Manasquan, NJ 2000 to present
• Meghan Candler Gallery in Vero Beach, FL 2005 to present

Associations and Affiliations:

• Plein Air Florida, Signature Member
• Plein Air Painters of the Treasure Coast (FL)
• The Guild of Creative Art (NJ) Exhibiting Member and past Board Member
• Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast, Founder
• Oil Painters of America, New York Chapter
• Oil Painters of America, New Jersey Chapter
• The Art Alliance of Red Bank (NJ)
• Monmouth County (NJ) Arts Council (Board Member)
• Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club (NY)
• Visual Arts League, East Brunswick (NJ)
• Salmagundi Club (NY)
• The American Artists Professional League Inc, (NY)
• American Impressionistic Society, Vero Beach (FL)
• Vero Beach Art Club (FL)
• Museum of Art, Vero Beach (FL)

Selected Corporate & Private Collections

• Mr. & Mrs. Colin Flinn, Sanibel, FL
• Mrs. Carlota Busch Webster, Pasadena, CA
• Mr. & Mrs. Peter Rotchford, Rumson, NJ
• Dr. & Mrs. Ronald McDonald, Monmouth Beach, NJ
• Mr. & Mrs. David Struve, Arlington, VA
• Red Bank Capital, Red Bank, NJ
• Mrs. Virginia Bauer, Red Bank, NJ
• Osprey Partners Investment Management, LLC, Shrewsbury, NJ
• Mr. & Mrs. Frank Shanley, Rumson, NJ
• Dr. & Mrs. Eugene Cheslock, Little Silver, NJ
• Mr. & Mrs. Michael Seaman, Rumson, NJ
• Mr. & Mrs. John Liang, Rumson, NJ
• Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Turchyn, Little Silver, NJ
• Mr. & Mrs. Champlin Sheridan, Baltimore, MD
• Mr. & Mrs. Donald Geary, Allentown, PA
• Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Thies, Coeur D’Alene, ID
• The Parker Clinic, Red Bank, NJ

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