Contact Judith Shaw: judithshaw20@gmail.com
Maple Street Dance Space is pleased to welcome Judith Shaw and her body of work: Art & Myth, which will be up in the Back Door Studio, December 2019 through March 2020. If you are intrigued by the sacred feminine expressed in her work, you might be interested in her beautiful, inward spiraling Celtic Goddess Oracle Deck!
ARTIST BIO:
Judith Shaw, a New Orleans native and graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, has always been interested in myth, culture and mysticism. Her work, inspired by the goddess, nature and sacred geometry, combines whimsy and the esoteric - whimsical tree paintings which often look like women dancing are intertwined with esoteric symbols such as those found in sacred geometry.
Shaw lives in Albuquerque where she divides her time between painting and writing, yoga, selling real estate, and hanging out with friends and family. She has also lived in Mexico and Greece, where the goddess first began to appear in her work.
Shaw published her deck of Celtic Goddess Oracle Cards in November, 2017 which is receiving excellent reviews from customers. She is hard at work on her next oracle deck - Animal Spirt Guides - while continuing to write and blog on the Goddess, mythology and folktales. Shaw’s work has been used on several book covers, in calendars and is available in a variety of print forms. Visit Shaw’s website judithshawart.com to view more of her work.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT:
From reading When God Was A Woman in the early 70′s to my continuing visual exploration of the role of the Goddess in our modern world...
From my very first oil painting of a tree to my ongoing paintings of trees - I continue to see myearly influences of Jackson Pollack’s abandon, and Van Gogh’s emotionality, as well as my studies of myth and world culture.
My work is layered and textured with paint and ancient symbols. My inspirations come from the ancient wisdom and visual symbols of many cultures, the goddess, sacred geometry, and the deep beauty of the natural world.
My style is one of abandon within control. The images are at times discovered in the process of painting at other times come from pre-planning and sketching. But always there is an element of destruction and re-finding as each piece reflects a fine balance between control and letting go.
My work is layered - with paint; with feelings of
.... body and soul as one whole...
.... the indescribable nature of existence...
.... the interconnectedness of all life...
