Featured Artist: Judith Jones
My interest in art started as a young child, when I was lucky enough to have parents with artistic leanings (which they, like me, embraced post retirement), an artist grandfather, and many other family members past and present with great and varied artistic skills. Growing up in England I was also inspired by regular visits to art galleries locally and in London - and now by our wonderful NGV.
I finally had the opportunity to explore my interest in drawing and art after I retired 3 years ago; I have my good friend Kris Love to thank for detecting this and for telling me about HBAS, and Gaye Pereira-Jackson’s Wednesday morning Social art group. Gaye’s group was welcoming and instructive, and led to me to expanding my range from drawing to watercolour and then acrylics.
Classes and workshops run by HBAS have been a great foundation - particularly Hans van Weerds’s 2021/22 Dynamic Drawing classes which have helped me loosen up, step back and work quickly to capture shape, light and dark, and movement. Hans has also encouraged use of different mediums and tools, including ink, charcoal, pastels and quills, and has helped me think about subjects for my art, particularly in nature, life drawing, and still life.
I have found the discipline and personal challenge of exhibiting with HBAS exhibitions nerve-wracking, exciting and affirming, with a second place in the 2020 Hobarchies for a portrait of my father ‘Dad #2’, and a highly commended in the 2021 exhibition, this time for a portrait of my mother ‘Daphne at the window’ (my choice of titles has improved).
I am grateful to Gaye and the HBAS for offering such a wide range of classes, workshops, exhibitions and special events like ‘Seeing our home’, and for the opportunity to be part of a great community of artists. I look forward to seeing how my art develops in the future!
I finally had the opportunity to explore my interest in drawing and art after I retired 3 years ago; I have my good friend Kris Love to thank for detecting this and for telling me about HBAS, and Gaye Pereira-Jackson’s Wednesday morning Social art group. Gaye’s group was welcoming and instructive, and led to me to expanding my range from drawing to watercolour and then acrylics.
Classes and workshops run by HBAS have been a great foundation - particularly Hans van Weerds’s 2021/22 Dynamic Drawing classes which have helped me loosen up, step back and work quickly to capture shape, light and dark, and movement. Hans has also encouraged use of different mediums and tools, including ink, charcoal, pastels and quills, and has helped me think about subjects for my art, particularly in nature, life drawing, and still life.
I have found the discipline and personal challenge of exhibiting with HBAS exhibitions nerve-wracking, exciting and affirming, with a second place in the 2020 Hobarchies for a portrait of my father ‘Dad #2’, and a highly commended in the 2021 exhibition, this time for a portrait of my mother ‘Daphne at the window’ (my choice of titles has improved).
I am grateful to Gaye and the HBAS for offering such a wide range of classes, workshops, exhibitions and special events like ‘Seeing our home’, and for the opportunity to be part of a great community of artists. I look forward to seeing how my art develops in the future!
