JUDY MORITZ

“I am enthralled by the beauty in minute details, whether it is in a picture of a flower, portraits, animal scenes or landscapes.  I simply cannot let a drawing or painting be finished until the details are just right.  I use colored pencils or oil, acrylic or watercolor paints to hone in on those fine details.”

Judy started painting and drawing in 1997 after retiring from nephrology nursing (B.S., Stanford University, and M.A., University of Washington) after 25 years of nursing practice. First she bicycled across the United States on a tandem with her husband Bill, now of 44 years. Several pictures were drawn from photos she took at Seattle Children's Hospitals when she was volunteering there for 10 years. She is currently getting her kid fix with her 3 grandkids, products of her only son and his wife.

Judy learned many of her artistic skills at the Northshore Senior Center in Bothell, Washington. while taking drawing and painting classes. She enjoys experimenting with many different mediums and likes to pick the most useful medium that can best portray a scene. She organizes the yearly Fine Art Show at the senior center and has been teaching the drawing/colored pencil class there since the early 2000's, hoping to pass on her joy of learning art to other seniors.

A member of the Colored Pencil Society of America since 1998, she has shown in many of their local shows. She was juried into the Cottage Lake Artist Guild, newly named Northwest Artists inAction in 2005 and has actively participated in more than 80 shows with them. She has also been juried into the Kenmore and LiveArts Bothell shows and shown at Tsuga Gallery in Bothell and Gallery North in Edmonds. She was the featured artist for March, 2013 at the Arts of Kenmore monthly show .

Although Judy likes the motto "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again" she also believes in "Do the best you can with the time, energy and health that you have while concentrating on the beauty and good in life."