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JUDITH I BRIDGLAND

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Based in Scotland, I paint landscapes mainly across Scotland, but also in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, with a special love for coastal landscapes. Please feel free to ask me about my work.

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Email me at judith.i.bridgland@gmail.com


NEXT EXHIBITIONS

TWO PERSON SHOW, ALBANY GALLERY, CARDIFF

8 - 30 March, 2024

I will have a collection of Welsh and Scottish paintings in this exhibition with the artist Gerald Green.

Show opens on Friday 8th March, 5-8pm. If you'd like me to send you a catalogue, please drop me a line.

Evening Primroses at Port Eynon, Oil on linen, 26" x 40"

Evening Clouds, the Summer Isles, Oil on linen, 12" x 12"


ANNUAL SUMMER SHOW, THOMPSON'S GALLERY, ALDEBURGH

8 - 30 June 2024

I will have three paintings in this huge annual summer show.

Why not have a day by the Suffolk seaside and drop in to the gallery to see them? For more details of the show, go HERE.


"CELTIC CONNECTIONS" SOLO SHOW, RED RAG GALLERY, BATH

Meet the Artist, Saturday 6 July 2024

Come and meet me at the opening of my new solo show, "Celtic Connections".

This exhibition showcases vibrant, uplifting paintings of the Celtic nations of Scotland, Cornwall and Wales, with beautiful scenes of wild coastlines, secret coves, breathtaking mountains and endless, empty beaches - the Hebrides and the Scottish west coast, St Ives, Land's End, the Gower peninsula.

With their joyous, uplifting colours, these paintings aren't just focal points or statement pieces for a home; they are transportative, they get you in the heart.

These are real, authentic places, that connect to treasured memories of happy holidays and to good times in your life; places that I know very well and mean a lot to me, and will tug at your heartstrings too.

Do come along to see them in the gallery and enjoy them!

If you'd like me to send you a catalogue, drop me a line.

Grasses in the Sand, Camusdarach, Oil on linen, 40" x 40"

Near Kynance Cove, Cornwall, Oil on linen, 24" x 24"

Yellow Flowers, the Mumbles, Oil on linen, 24" x 24"


Browse more of my paintings HERE.
Take a short guided tour of my previous 2021 exhibition at Clarendon Fine Art in Marlow HERE.


ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Read about my painting technique in the March 2022 magazine article
HERE.

"As a landscape artist, I am used to observing nature very closely, and to returning to the same familiar spot again and again to paint, travelling up and down the country to do so in the process.

However, our circumstances over the last year, with the busyness of our lives taken away and the shrinking of our personal worlds, meant that the passing of the seasons and the minutiae of daily change became more intense, more focussed on, more meaningful and poignant, and even more closely observed. For many of us, nature has gradually moved to become something more central in our lives, something constant and comforting.

Of necessity, inspiration for me has had to come from much closer to home; from my garden, from my beautiful local park which I visit every day, from re-exploring familiar, happy places. As a result, I think that the subject matter of my paintings has gained a real intensity, with a focus on the abundance of the natural world, and the seasons and rhythms of nature which just keep going, despite everything, in a demonstration of hopefulness and joy.

Small things which might have been seen before as too mundane, too ordinary – wildflowers, a hedgerow, marks in the sand, waves on the shore, the patterns of crops, a sunset - now have an increased importance and significance. They have become things to treasure."




BUZZ

Link to an article about a recent Edinburgh exhibition HERE.

"Do Australian artists ever lose the antipodean light? The light and attending hope. Maybe not. Even when they paint in gloomier light such as northern Europe or Scotland. Here is Judith Bridgland, an Australian who paints in Scotland" OZAbbey @9AbbeyOZ Read the tweet HERE.

"Colour is her thing." Kieran Hughes @kieranhughes77 Read the tweetHERE.

"Judith Bridgland’s paintings hit me like a kick in the stomach, which doesn’t sound good, but does at least express a little bit of the punch which someone who handles paint like it springs from the tips of their fingers can give to a viewer through the experience of looking at their work. I am not a great lover of thickly applied paint generally, but when its done like this…I love it." London Art Fair 2012, Jenny Meehan Contemporary Artist blog

"Judith I Bridgland's Eastbourne Pier won the Royal Glasgow Institute's House For An Art Lover Prize in 2009. The resulting exhibition, a mix of subject matter and media "stemming from a love of colour and texture", is rooted in the genesis of that evocative oil. It's a snapshot of Bridgland's working process, her trademark vibrancy and textural dexterity worked out in a considerable variety of media and methods, from acrylics to procion dyes, screen prints to charcoals, organic matter and textiles. "Exploring texture and pattern through other media is a very useful starting point," says Bridgland. "Everything can be used to create art." If her Eastbourne subject matter stems from childhood familiarity, elsewhere there are colour-drenched acrylics of London and meaty oils of coastal Suffolk, including some fine, atmospheric and almost - but not quite - monochromatic renditions of Walberswick landing stages." Sarah Urwin Jones, The Herald, Saturday 14 May 2011

"...love the thick, textured, expression-filled paintwork" The Art Curator blog

"Working in oils, bold, vigorous rhythmical strokes of impasto paint reflect nature’s contrasts and harmonies. The ever-changing light illuminates fields, mountains, hedgerows and the sea, with the expanse of the natural forms contrasting with complex abstraction to give a strong sense of place." Wall Street International Magazine

"THE ENERGY IN THIS OUTPOURING OF CREATIVITY IS A JOY TO BEHOLD" The Scotsman

"ONE OF SCOTLAND'S FOREMOST CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS" Avenue Magazine

"STUNNING" "COLOUR EXPLODES FROM THE PALETTE OF JUDITH BRIDGLAND" East Anglian Daily Times

"POWERFUL AND DRAMATIC LANDSCAPES" "STAMPED THROUGH WITH COLOUR, ENERGY AND DRAMA" The Bristol Magazine

"NOW FIRMLY ESTABLISHED AS ONE OF SCOTLAND'S LEADING AND MOST COLLECTED ARTISTS... HER EXPRESSIVE PAINTING STYLE AND CHOICE OF LOCATIONS MAKE HER WORK AMPLIFY ALL THAT IS BEAUTIFUL IN NATURE. HER SHOW IS NOT TO BE MISSED" Out Bristol

"TRADEMARK VIBRANCY AND TEXTURAL DEXTERITY" The Herald

"ONE OF THE RISING STARS OF SCOTTISH PAINTING" Venue Magazine

"JUDITH BRIDGLAND CONFRONTS THE DRAMA AND EMOTIONS OF LANDSCAPE" The List

"BOLD, EXPRESSIVE AND FULL OF CONTRASTS" Artists and Illustrators



WATCH ONLINE
To see my work at the (sadly missed!) Glasgow Art Fair in 2010 with Duncan R Miller, click here for the BBC Reporting Scotland piece. My paintings are approx. 1 minute in.
HERE