Judith T. Irwin

Judith T. Irwin is a contemporary artist that depicts the living world around her. In her paintings, we see images of various plants with the artist focusing on the plant’s shadow. The plants in these paintings are still projections of their shadow lasting only for a few minutes before becoming distorted by the earth’s rotation around the sun. In her paintings we witness shadows of nature being depicted with vibrant colors, challenging the boundary between being and non-being.

Her talents lie not only in the visual arts but also in the horticultural. For over 20 years she has freelanced as a fine maintenance gardener and aesthetic pruner. The combination of the being a visual artist and a horticulturalist have been the inspiration for not only her shadow paintings, but in addition her artisan wreaths made from mostly foraged plant material. Judith’s artisan wreaths are a ‘one of a kind’ artistic expression
She has a bachelor degree in illustration design from California Collage of the Arts