Judy Linnell was brought up in Knighton, mid-Wales. She studied Fine Art at Leeds University with Professor Quentin Bell and Sir Lawrence Gowing, and received her BA Honours degree in 1970 followed by a post graduate certificate in art education in 1971.
After teaching \'A\' level English and Art History in Rome and Cambridge she settled in Hertfordshire with her family, running painting and drawing workshops in schools and youth clubs and demonstrating for a variety of art societies and groups. Later she started her own water colour workshops. Twice a year she is to be found in Corsica and Crete teaching at water colour painting holidays.
Apart from exhibiting locally, the artist has exhibited with \'Britain\'s Painters\' and the Society of Women Artists and annually since 1997 with the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours where she received the Buzzacott Award at their annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London in Spring 2001.
Judy has contributed to many teaching books on art, including: \'The Encyclopedia of Water Colour Painting Techniques\', \'The Encyclopedia of Flower Painting Techniques\' and \'Two-in-One Water Colour\' for Quorto Publishing.
The artist loves the vibrancy, luminosity and fluidity of the water colour medium and likes to exploit its unique qualities to the full, taking risks, experimenting and pushing colour to the limits with large fluid washes combined with delicate line work. Her approach is essentially intuitive and spontaneous, painterly and loose and her subjects are usually flowers, still life and the landscapes of her birth.
The artist has recently moved back to Wales.
