Artist, explorer, image wrangler, knowledge seeker, creative alchemist, and purveyor of inspiration, helping others channel creativity on a daily basis.
Judy has a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design, and is an ardent explorer of the arts, and maker culture. She loves painting, sewing, hand stitching, knitting, designing, making and experimenting while most often using nature as her muse. Known for her mixed-media art quilts incorporating: paints, inks, dyes, printed paper ephemera, as well as stamping and screen printing, she prefers to be involved in the whole process of a project from white fabric to final stitches. As an instructor she loves to light a creative fire in her students and help them learn new techniques and develop the skills they need to bring their ideas to life.
Judy has written 3 books: 10+ Techniques with Acrylic Inks, Alternatively Bound and Stitched, and Make An Impression: A Textile Artists Guide to Stamping Success, you can read her articles between the pages of Quilting Arts, Cloth Paper Scissors magazines, and many other textile publications, she has 3 instructional DVD’s published by Interweave and has been featured on Quilting Arts TV numerous times.
Her caravan of creativity now resides in Sacramento, CA.