JUDY WALTERS FINE ART

JUDY Walters’ impressionistic oil paintings illuminate her highly developed sense of place, light and scale. With a tendency to think big, her paintings of majestic skies, endless marshes and sparkling beaches speak to her creative sensibilities. As demand for her works have grown, so have her canvases. Her recent large-scale paintings range from 4-by-6 feet to 8-by-9 feet.

With a home studio on Daniel Island, Walters often paints en plein air from her open-air studio situated aboard her boat. She and her husband, Jack, spend much time cruising the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico. She takes inspiration and reference photos from the coastlines and marshes she explores along the way.

Although her expansive ambitions in art and life sprang from childhood, her upbringing occurred in a much more intimate scale—as a coal miner’s daughter from Pikeville, Kentucky. Walters and her siblings were raised on a working farm with loving parents. There she learned the value of family togetherness and appreciation for every small blessing and beautiful treasure from the land.

Today, Walters applies her fond memories to her artistic achievement. “In my art career, I am reminded about what I learned from my mother, that something lovely can always be created simply and with humble hands. As an artist, all I need