On exhibit through February at the Hoosick Falls Health Center are watercolors and oil paintings by Eagle Bridge artist Judith Lee Page.
Page was born in New England in 1960. From an early age she showed an interest and ability in art.
Her parents have said that she was drawing animals before she could talk. In her twenties Page spent time on the west coast as a self-employed clothing designer, later returning to New England to raise her family of three children.
Over time Page began experimenting in oil and watercolor painting while completing degrees at Berkshire Community College and later Smith College. She also worked for a local plant nursery for several years, where she developed a passion for gardening and flowers in particular. Her paintings reflected that passion, as she frequently painted the perennial gardens of Smith College as well as other local flower gardens and landscapes. She graduated with honors in painting from Smith College in 1992, going on to become active in the arts community of the Pioneer Valley region. Her work was shown in many regional galleries and can be found in corporate and private collections throughout the region.
In 1993 Page and her husband moved to Vermont, and Page took a break from painting to concentrate on raising their children. After the children grew up and moved out, Page and her husband moved to Eagle Bridge, a community with many practicing artists. With the encouragement of her friend Lisa Revet, Page began painting again and exhibited paintings in the Fine Art in the Village gallery in Hoosick Falls. Through the gallery Page met local well known American Realist Evan Wilson, whose work she greatly admired. For the last six months Page has been studying painting under the mentorship of Wilson and is beginning to find the style that will define her work as an American Realist. Under Wilson’s coaching Page is learning to paint what she sees, capturing light and its effects on objects with poetic brush strokes in a fresh, immediate way.
Currently, she is exhibiting at the Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT, and Fine Art in the Village, Hoosick Falls.
Page can be reached via email at nickent@surfglobal.net or by contacting Lisa Revet at fineartinthevillage.com.