Judith Appleby

Born in Dublin in 1952, Judith Appleby qualified as an architect and spent most of her career teaching architectural design. Her master's in education developed new ways of teaching creativity. Judy took up full-time painting in 2006 and as a self-taught artist has applied herself to studying work of other artists, and discovering her own concepts for painting.

“My paintings vary in character, but many have a distinctive theme emphasising the relationship of natural and man-made structures in the landscape. My work expresses an abstracted interpretation of structure and form in its landscape context.”

In recent years she has explored the colours and forms of geology and the relationship of man-made structures to the coastal landscape. Harbours and lighthouses are a favourite subject. So too are the whisky distilleries of Scotland: the dramatic contrast of simple, often white, industrial buildings with magnificent landscapes and coastal settings, has provided inspiration for a series of distillery paintings.