Judy Maurer
Springdale, AR
Landscape painter, Judy Maurer collecting inspiration from nature.
MessageJudy Maurer is one of the many artists who began their creative journey later in life. Although, she excelled in her art classes in school, she elected to pursue a career in technology, with only periodic sojourns into drawing and painting.
In the late 90’s, she retired from her high stress corporate job, moved to Northwest Arkansas and began to purse an interest in pastel with serious passion. After she tried plein air painting in the early 2000’s, she combined her love of the out of doors and her growing interest in oils.
Secondary to her love of the landscape, is the challenge of portraiture; drawing and painting the live model. She has participated in dozens of workshops, studied with numerous well known artists over the years and taught drawing and pastel in a local adult education program.
She has been Artist-in-Residence at two national parks; Buffalo National River in Arkansas and Acadia National Park in Maine and is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America and the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society. Her work is on the cover of The Best of Art & Artisans, Published by Kennedy Publishing 2006 and a pastel is among the permanent collection of the Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, Missouri. In 2018, she won the Gold Metal at Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional Exhibition in Annapolis, Maryland for her painting of Welsh Bluff.
After spending winters in Gold Canyon, Arizona and painting the desert and summers in the Ozarks for many years, she now lives in Arkansas full time and continues to explore the Ozark Mountains in Missouri and Arkansas seeking to paint scenes that honor the beauty and special qualities of this region.
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