Judy Buckley

My work is driven by my quest to evoke a feeling or mood of a moment. I invite the viewer to participate in the perceptual process of putting themselves in the scene and ‘feel’ the moment, the time or place in their own unique way. My goal is to convey an experience of certain aesthetics, such as a splash of color, a painterly brush stroke or an inquisitive shape, rather than a literal narrative experience. 

Oil paint allows me to honor the landscape by getting lost in the moment of mixing a beautiful color, using gestural brush strokes, and just letting life pause. By focusing on the sky I believe it becomes a metaphor for life: the calm, the power, the uncertainty, its’ beauty and all its’ possibilities. I strive to simplify, be present, to understand relationships and find the joy! 

I live in Cranbury New Jersey with my husband, and I am my happiest getting lost in the clouds on the Jersey Shore, an open field or in the mountains of Colorado with the people I love.

Exhibitions and Galleries: Main Street Gallery, Manasquan, CG Gallery, Princeton,

 Ocean Galleries, NJ -Stone Harbor & Avalon New Jersey.

One Woman Show in West Hampton, NY, group show at Ellerslie Museum Trenton, Gourgaud Gallery, West Windsor Arts Council, Princeton Arts Council, Cranbury Station Gallery, ArtJam for Homefront, Princeton.

IN THE MEDIA

https://gourgaudgallery.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-exhibit-for-july-at-gourgaud.html

https://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/2011/08/west_windsor_arts_center_exhib.html

https://paintingsbylinda.blogspot.com/2011/07/article-of-new-exhibit-at-gourgaud.html

Small town is big-time for artist

HNT 2/27/02

CRANBURY: For an artist, says Judy Buckley, Cranbury is tops.

"It's a wonderful place for artists. There are a lot of us, it seems, in a very small area, and we are all inspired by each other. We share ideas."

For a landscape painter, especially, the physical nature of the community is an inspiration, she says. "It's the beauty of the land, the fields and preserved farmland, and the historic buildings!"

A watercolorist and oil painter who says her `'real love" is to paint landscapes, Buckley wants to instruct people about the values of pleasures of art.

An organizer of the Cranbury Arts Council several years ago, she teaches art at workshops, after-school and summer programs open to people within and outside Cranbury.

"I teach art appreciation and how to paint once a week at the Middlesex County Youth Shelter."

She says she enjoys communicating her ideas and explaining how she visualizes objects and places.

Buckley studied at the Arts Student league in New York and at New York University. After graduation in 1982, she worked as an artist for an advertising company in New York City.

As for the future: "I plan on teaching more and painting more. With any artist, young or old, the more you do, the more wonderful! It is important to do something every day, whether teaching, drawing or sharing."