the gallery of Judy Todd

• name: Judy Todd
• phone: (562) 594-8220
• email: Judy Todd
• website:Judy's website

About the artist:

Judy Todd, though born in Indiana, has lived her entire life in Southern California, except for three years teaching at the University of London. She has been drawing and painting since a very early age, but became much more productive after retiring from teaching at California State University, Dominguez Hills, in 2004.

Since then her paintings have won a dozen awards in local art shows and been exhibited in two national shows. Her painting "Forest Birds" was awarded Third Place in the 2007 Watercolor West show. Her painting "Bird Girl" was published in Palette Magazine in January, 2008. Until September, 2008, 22 of her paintings are on exhibit at California State University, Fullerton.

Occasionally experimenting with mixed media, Judy works primarily in watercolor, although she uses it in nontraditional ways. She prefers to work with pure color straight from the tube of paint and to create exaggerated organic shapes based on nature, animals, and people. She tries to express the beauty and joy of just being alive, so that we will treasure our brief time in this amazing world and take good care of it and each other.