Meet the Artist Painting with Pastel in Hudson Valley, NY

Judy Stanger studied fine art during her undergraduate years and has undertaken coursework at both the Woodstock School of Art and The Cape School of Art. She has been painting with pastel in Hudson Valley, NY, as her medium for more than 25 years while pursuing a career in human services. Her subjects of interest have been seascapes in Cape Cod and other Atlantic coastlines and landscapes in the Hudson Valley as well as in Arizona.

She draws her inspiration for seascape rendering from the sheer beauty that is expressed through the poetic character of light and color in seaside settings. Landscapes inspire a distinctly different sensibility by distilling images represented in nature, such as mountains, rivers, and barns, through their interactions with light and color.

She lives in Stone Ridge, NY, and is a graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York at Albany with a Doctorate of the Arts, an interdisciplinary degree in the Humanities.