Judith Moy Born, Belfast 1927

Born in Belfast in 1927 but raised in Cheshire, Judith Moy cannot remember a time when she did not paint. Both parents were keen amateur artists and holidays were spent in North Wales where she mainly used watercolour and gouache. She went to Sir John Deanes Grammar School, Nothwich and then to Bedford Froebel College where she specialised in Art.
She taught in Colchester and London before marrying a farmer/company director in North Essex where she settled for the next 30 years. During this time she exhibited widely in East Anglia and was a committee member of the Colchester Art Society.She took to painting in oils which slowed her down and gave her time to consider the mechanics of her work. In 1980 she moved to Rutland and later started and managed the Uppingham Gallery, the forerunner of the well known Goldmark Gallery. She also painted and exhibited in the area.
In 1989 she retired to Shrewsbury to paint full-time. She turned to the relatively new medium of acrylics which she found very difficult to master at first. But most of her work is in this medium now, In the comfort of her studio but all the preliminary work is done on the spot in Shropshire, Wales and wherever she finds herself, and she makes dozens of drawings in pencil charcoal and ink to capture the immediacy of her subjects. She also finds time to do some teaching and demonstrating; she has been a committee member of the Shropshire Art Society and of the Gateway Arts Centre, Shrewsbury.
 

Since 1949 she as exhibited widely. Including
Donavan Rowley Gallery, Colchester
Trinity Gallery, Colchester
The Gateway Gallery, ShrewsburyGrafton Gallery
Anderson Gallery
Bear Steps Gallery
Lamplight Gallery
Glyn y Weddw, Llanbedrog
The Real Art Gallery
Stepaside Galllery
Y Capel, Llangollen
English Bridge Gallery
The Albany Gallery