Jude's Biography

Painting is Jude’s lifetime passion…she is a classically trained oil, watercolour and colour pencil artist.

Jude first studied art in Montreal, Quebec at the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Institut de Pedelogie.  She then continued her studies in Toronto at the Ontario College of Art, and in Los Angeles at the California Art Institute.  She has studied with artists Dottie Knight and Neil Boyle and also studied with watercolour painters Cristina Baltayian, Denise Walser-Kolar, Alexander (Saha) Viazmensky, John Pastoriza-Pinol, Lesley Randall, Lee McCaffery and Judy Koenig.

Jude's paintings are in various private collections including the Huntington Library,  Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Mateo, the Santa Monica Maria Montessori School, and in other private collections in Holland, France, England, Canada and the United States.  She has taken commissions in portraits and sold paintings all over the world, exhibiting in numerous exhibitions with the Valley Artist’s Guild, private exhibits, and The Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California (BAGSC).

Jude has been affiliated with the Valley Artists Guild, the Valley Watercolour Society, The Desert Art Center (where she taught watercolour classes), the Coachella Valley Watercolour Society (CVWS) and on the Service Council for Palm Springs ArtMuseum.  Jude is a member of the BAGSC (Botanical Artists of Southern California), where she was the Education Chair. In 2021 Jude was Exhibition Co-Chair for The popular Coachella Valley Watercolour Society (CVWS).

Jude now lives and paints in Toronto, Canada and spends time in the Haliburton Highlands of Ontario. She taught an online eight week course (one day a week)  for ESS Support Services in June of 2022. Jude has been asked to teach a workshop in “Portraits” for the DVAC in the Spring.