Judith White’s paintings explore the changing conditions particular to the Australian landscape.  They do not attempt to describe form but rather to invoke fragments of the physical and visual experience of the organic world and, through these, the continuum of natural forces that propel the environment which ordinarily escape human notice.  Each composition is invested with an atmospheric visual energy, a movement of shape and form which plays out across the rich, tactile surface of the canvas.  The viewer is immersed within watery domains and luminous reflections which reveal the interplay of both micro and macro natural worlds.  Images often appear tangled in a moment of frenetic movement and suspended in a matrix of light, water and air.  By drawing us into her landscapes Judith encourages us to contemplate the grand forces of nature that underscore all living things and the fragility of our own place in the natural order.

Judith White was born in Sydney and has been exhibiting for more than thirty years.  She trained at the National Art School, and received a BA degree at New England and Sydney Universities.  Judith has been awarded many prizes during her career, and her work was shown in the Wynne Prize in 1999.  She is represented in collections throughout Australia, Japan, Holland, Israel, Indonesia and New Zealand and has completed numerous commissions including a major public work for the Sydney Olympics 2000.