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Nappers  oil, 16” x 20” (Prints also available)

the art of    Judy Minor15 South St. E., Aylmer West, Ont. N5H 1P5

email info@judyminor.ca   website  www.judyminor.ca Facebook Page 

 Art journal 

‘Greetings to all, and the very best to you for 2018.   A sampling of paintings will follow, plus some odds and ends on the

reverse which might be of interest. Enjoy!’  Judy  

newsletter   2018

Well Served

This gear is veteran of countless fires; the painting is trib-

ute to any who wear it. (The full story about this work is on

her website) (Prints also available)

Waiting for Spring  oil, 12” by 21” (Prints also available)

The images below are shown actual size.

 I Like Red (2.5” by 3.5”, oil) Best in Still Life at the Cider Painters of America International

Miniature Show, Pennsylvania.

Ordering by mail  Judy has acquired much experience ship- ping works around the globe now —  for details, please consultthe ‘ordering information’ page on her website. She offers Paypal for online credit card transactions.

The Creamery (2.5” by 3.5”, oil) (sold) Best in Show at the Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers So-

ciety Annual Exhibition of Fine Art in Miniature, Washington DC. 

 Nana’s Attic (3” by 3”, oil)First in International in 2016, at the MPSGS in Wash-

ington DC, the oldest Miniature Society in North Americaand the second oldest in the world.

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  Painting in miniature is an ancient, unique fine art form inmany countries — often felt to have begun with the ancient Celticilluminated manuscripts — and there are many strict miniaturesocieties worldwide. Judy has received several awards interna-tionally that are considered lifetime achievements for miniatur-

ists.

The awards are from several of the largest and most venerableof Societies: an Award of Excellence from the World Federationof Miniaturists (MD); Best in Portrait, Best in Still Life and thePresident’s Award from the Cider Painters of America (PA);Best in Show, First in Portrait, First in Still Life at the Minia-ture Art Society of Florida (the largest such show in the world,with over 1,000 candidates attempting juried entry annually);

Best New Artist, First in Portrait, First in International, andBest in Show from the Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers

Society (DC).

On her online journal there is a bit more information:

 Judy now holds some of

the top awards in the

world for her minia-

tures. 

After 20-odd years of exhibiting art,Judy says that the venue whichsuited her ‘the very best’, in manyways, was near Peterborough at theLang mill.

“This venue is fantastic— a hugethree-story heritage mill. There arethick walls covered with rough plas-ter, enormous hand-hewn tree trunksfor beams, and wide floorboards polished by decades of hard use;

through the deep set windows youare able to hear the water rushingand see past the mill pond for miles.The ex-hibit wasset up insuch a wayas to com- plement allof this perfectly.”

Actual size,original watercol-

our miniature‘Lord of the

Pond’ 

‘Pipes’ & ‘Pipes, Drum, & Ghillies’ (newer companion piece)  Limited Edition lithographs from the original oil painting

11.75”x17.75” $85.00 (unframed) The‘Pipes’ image was selected for the cover of the ‘Piper &

Drummer’ magazine. Lithos of the work have been sent to al-most every province and state in Canada and the U.S. and toEurope and Great Britain as well. (The artist’s proofs are sold

out, but there are still some signed andnumbered images available.)

‘Pipes, Drum, & Ghillies’ came about asthe result of so many requests for a com- panion piece for ‘Pipes’; this image wasfeatured on the cover of ‘The Voice’, themagazine for the Eastern United StatesPipe Band Association.

People are often surprised that she wasa piper (so I’ve ‘liberated’ this photo ofher in partial Highland gear). In the past,3/4 of the family competed across Ontario, both band and

solo. (She still prefers to ‘paint toceol mor (classical pipe music)when she really needs to concen-

trate.)The Capital City Pipe Band(Columbus, Ohio) asked if theymight use ‘Pipes, Drum & Ghillies’as the cover work for their CD ( ACapital Idea), and Judy gave bless-ings to that.

The commissioned image which Judy painted for the National Hockey League’s ‘Visions of Hockey’ seems to have been seen far and wider, now. A late

night fax from Newfoundlandbore the news that 109 of theimages had been signed byhockey legend Maurice Richardbefore his death; these are be-ing auctioned off for more goodworks.

...notes from the studio...

...work in process…some time ago, she painted a small oil study

from life with her camera mounted behind her, making a short time

lapse movie; over 10,000 viewers have watched this on You-

tube...she has now done two more ‘County Elgin’ paintings this

way. This is online ...

...a visual artist ‘Page’ on Facebook, has been started

...for larger works this year, she plans to catch up on her work aftera few years of disruption (due to renovation work); firstly the

miniatures for the international shows, possibly an extension of

some of her series works, then a wish to get ‘gloriously’ outside to

 paint on location as well. The September light is her favourite...

...Judy’s children’s preoperative preparation book  is sold out at the

 publisher, but she has a limited number remaining in the studio,

available via the website...

…for those who are spread around the globe, she’ll try to keep up

 postings (on the journal and/or Facebook 

) as paintings are com-

 pleted...she is discontinuing her email updates due to new Canadian

legislation for documentation. Clients wishing updates will be able

to receive them by clicking ‘Subscribe’ on her online journal, whichshe feels is a cleaner, far less onerous, solution...

...gone green...newsletters are available online now at ScribeD

(found via journal), but can be printed from there if you pre-

fer...Happy Trails...MM

 Lang Syne (oil, 3”x 3”) (sold) The Apothecary (oil, 3” x 3”)(sold) 

‘...miniature paintings are designed to be viewed through a mag-

nifying glass (with often incredible) detail ...some say that they

love the format, as they can have a world-class collection of

original art that also hangs in a very small space. Portraits of

 precious things (people or homes) are often arranged, as in the

18th century; some miniatures from that era owe their survivaltoday to the fact that they are so small and easy to transport.’  

Judy keeps her collectors up to date with journal and website entries about her recent works in miniature, as the works them-selves are often sent out to gallery shows as soon as they are com- pleted, and are often quickly sold there. 

Campbellford Memorial Hospital, a rurally-based

hospital, now has their much-needed CT scanner,

due in part to efforts by 52 artists from across Can-ada. ‘The Other Canvas’ saw canvases painted/

donated not only by visual artists (Bateman, Du-

mas, Pachter) but notable artists in other fields

(Veronica Tennant, Brent Butt). (At side is Judy’s

donation ‘Canoe’ which seemed to set off a bit of a

 bidding competition.) She says ‘hats off’ to our

rural hospitals, where the job grows ever more

difficult and creative solutions must be found.