New work by Judy Walsh 2020/2023

Atomic no. 20 (Oil on panel 86 x 86) Judy Walsh 2023

The title of the painting featured here is derived from the atomic no. on the Periodic Table published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (Website below) I like to consider that a landscape can be portrayed in different ways and was interested in portraying the structure and history of the area.

https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/20/calcium

The area in which I live is called the Causse de Quercy and is a Unesco global geopark.

UNESCO Global Geoparks are single, unified geographical areas where sites and landscapes of international geological significance are managed with a holistic concept of protection, education and sustainable development. The website below tells you why the Causse de Quercy is an internationally important area.

https://en.unesco.org/global-geoparks/causses-du-quercy

Journey through a landscape (Oil on panel 87cm x 110cm) Judy Walsh 2023

Riverside (Oil on panel 82cm x 94cm) Judy Walsh 2023

Diptych unhinged 1/Cool World Judy Walsh 2021-22 (Oil on panel 1m x 1m)

Diptych unhinged 2/Hot World Judy Walsh 2021-22 (Oil on panel 1m x 1m)

Moth. (Oil on panel 1m x 1m) Judy Walsh 2020

“For she was beautiful. Her beauty made the bright world dim, and everything beside Seemed like the fleeting image of a shade. No thought of living spirit could abide (Which to her looks had ever been betrayed) On any object in the world so wide, On any hope within the skies, But on her form and in her inmost eyes.” Verse 12: The Witch of Atlas (Published 1824) Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Tis said she first was changed into vapour; And then into a cloud-such clouds as flit (Like splendour-winged moths against a taper.) Verse 3: The Witch of Atlas (Published 1824) Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lost in the woods-spliced

Digital image. The original artwork was hand painted and then scanned. Additional elements and compositional changes have been added. Printed on archival paper as a limited edition (20).

The Beautiful and the good

The Greeks had a saying, kalos kagathos, "the beautiful and the good," which they applied to those whose outer beauty reflected moral goodness of mind and spirit. This thought helps explain the appeal of classical Greek art. Beyond the formal and technical means for creating harmonious and balanced images, the Greeks imparted to their works of art something of this greatness of spirit.

Dramatic political developments had made the fifth century a time when the individual could indeed take charge of his destiny, for this was the first time in the history of the world in which a democratic government flourished. The reforms of Kleisthenes in 508-507 B.C. finally broke the power of the wealthy and of the landed aristocracy. By grouping the people of Athens and Attica into ten new tribes, Kleisthenes shattered old power alignments and gave every citizen a voice. A new sense of the power of the individual was in the air, and with it came a new sense of responsibility. Thus we have firm cultural grounds for seeing in the works of art a sense of measured action with full consciousness of its consequences, a sense of power tempered with calm deliberation.

https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/the-greek-miracle.pdf