Judith North is a painter working mainly in oil, making abstract paintings inspired by everyday experience, drawing on memories from her subconscious rather than directly representing physical objects or scenes. She paints intuitively and uses the painting process itself to bring forth her ideas, inviting the viewer to engage with the work through imagination and contemplation rather than through a literal interpretation.

Her paintings act as windows through to illusory ‘mindscapes’. There are hints of arranged objects or landscapes whose elements overlap to create spaces where colour, form and line act both independently and in harmony to construct places that invite the viewer to navigate but remain intangible and irrational.

Judith’s paintings are created using thin layers of paint, overpainting and obliterating as she works, resulting in a visible history within the final piece. In her painting process, she aims to draw a parallel between the process of creating a painting and the processes of thought and memory that we use when we strive to recall our own memories. Just as the history of her paintings can be seen, our own memories are shaped by the layers of experiences that build over time.