Judy Walsh describes what motivates her to produce work in visual form (See below).

" Usually my motivation to produce a piece of work, be it a painting, print, drawing, video or construction is that of exploration. Often I will explore the same theme in different media or choose particular materials because I think that it gives the right form to an exploration. 
For me there is a difference between art and artifact. Both can be of equal value, but my view about painting (art)  is nearer to that expressed below by the artist Barnett Newman." 

Barnett Newman (1905-1970)

"I’m trying to make a distinction between an aesthetic object and a work of art. In this regard, I think of my painting as an object but only as an object in a grammatical construction. 
When I was a young kid studying French, I studied with a man, Jean-Baptiste Zacherie, who used to teach French by saying, “Moi, je suis le sujet, I’m the subject; vous, vous etes l’objet, you are the object; et voici le verbe,”  and he’d give you a gentle slap on the face. 
The empty canvas is a grammatical object-a predicate. I am the subject who paints it. The process of painting is the verb. The finished painting is the entire sentence, and that's what I'm involved in. Those who emphasise the world of objects and insist that an object can be art must, it seems to me, in the end make man himself an object. Now, this attitude is okay for generals, for politicians, for professional patriots, and for pagan aestheticians, who make man into so much material; but I think man is more than an object. Anyway, I am not interested in adding to the objects that exist in the world. I want my painting to separate itself from every object and every art object that exists. It is hard to say what one has accomplished. The work speaks for itself. However, one of the things that can be said is that I helped change painting from the painting of pictures to the making of paintings. I never use the word "picture" Those who make pictures, whether realistic or abstract, are not making paintings. What I have done is help take the plumbing out of painting, the outdoor plumbing of American scene and the sophisticated plumbing of the Paris boulevards. The other thing that I think was accomplished was that we removed the non-objective from non-objective art and gave abstract art the possibility of a new set of human subjects.
I have helped elevate into a new grand vision .... To create a work of art means, to me, to express something that is deep in one. It's not acting out one's neurosis, it's not expressing one's sensations; but it is an attempt to put down what you really believe and what you really are concerned with or what really moves you or interests you."

Barnett Newman. Selected writings and interviews.P.253. Edited by John P. O'Neill Published by University of California Press 1992

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