I am quite often surprised to find my paintings relating to some forgotten happening or visual experience which can be triggered by any sort of stimuli, whether it be small or large. These paintings often take on a life of their own.
I work with mixed media on canvas or paper using acrylic, gouache, inks and pastels, oil sticks and lately gold and silver leaf, gold pens and paints on a variety of watercolour papers, using whatever medium suits the painting in progress.
Recently my experiences in the countries bordering the Mediterranean and in Indonesia have widened my perceptions and given me new directions, becoming more involved with subject matter relating to antiquity, the primitive and the exotic.
I work with mixed media on canvas or paper using acrylic, gouache, inks and pastels, oil sticks and lately gold and silver leaf, gold pens and paints on a variety of watercolour papers, using whatever medium suits the painting in progress.
Recently my experiences in the countries bordering the Mediterranean and in Indonesia have widened my perceptions and given me new directions, becoming more involved with subject matter relating to antiquity, the primitive and the exotic.
No artist better embodies the spirit of Queensland. If Matisse of Kandinsky were still around, they would envy the free-flowing colour of Laws’s paintings of Fraser Island, the Reef and the Andamooka opal country. Dorothy McKeller may have loved a sunburnt country, Laws loves ‘ biting, acid greens of the Downs, the lilac pink of morning and evening beaches, the turquoise and tea-tree crimson of Fraser Island’s perch lakes and the orange cliffs of Coober Pedy’. Looking at Judith Laws’ painting is like looking into the fiery heart of a Queensland opal.
The Sunday Mail, Brisbane – October 8 1989, Kate Collins.
All artworks are for sale - subject to availablity
Paintings |
Figurative |
Frazer Island |
Dramatic visual narratives, they speak vividly in colourful metaphors, not of conventional superficial contours but in glowing terms, rising expressions of joyful exuberance to reveal the unique charisma of the countryside. Judith Laws creates compositions of great strength yet they are never devoid of delicacy. Intense passages of painted prose are punctuated by unexpected subtlety. Small details are enthrallingly described. Her paintings are pleasurably provocative. The do not stab at the subconscious but disturb dormant emotions.
Queensland Homes Magazine – Spring 1991, Wendy Foster.
Elisa Frazer Series
POWERFUL, EXOTIC, EMOTIVE! “Don’t expect glossy, specifically site orientated, tourist-brochure type images of Carnarvon, Kakadu and the Bungle Bungles. These works have no relationships to snapshots. Don’t expect deep sub-text messages, you will need to remember those times when your feelings about a view are beyond the tangible explicable responses. Juxtaposition of magenta, crimson, orange, purple and blue are not the colours of everyone’s response but Judith expresses in these, the colours of power, the exotic, the emotive and the colours of a new age.
The Chronicle, Toowoomba – July 8 1992, Tony McCulkin.
Foreign Lands |
Works on Paper |
When one thinks of the art of Judith Laws, one thinks of colour; colour, rich, vibrant and luminous. Judith Laws always leaves one with the impression that she is totally in control of colour. She analyses colour, manipulates it and applies to achieve astonishing results. Whether she paints the rainforest, the sea, the desert or the nude, it is the power of colour that seduces. For Judith, colour is, more often than not, a feeling; a feeling that is exciting, lively, compelling and passionate. However, it is the feeling behind the colour that demands response.
The Art of Judith Laws, “JUDITH LAWS’ published 2002, Rex Backhaus-Smith.
Spanish Journey
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