Andrew Judd, 1958 | Plein Air /surrealist painter

Andrew Judd is a contemporary Canadian painter and illustrator celebrated for his award-winning plein air landscapes and conceptual abstracts.

A graduate of the Ontario College of Art (1979), Judd spent decades as a commercial illustrator and art director before transitioning to full-time painting, heavily influenced by his time living and sketching in the cafes of Vienna, Austria.

His work spans vivid, on-location landscapes, urban scenes and conceptual surrealism.

He often explores themes of light, immediacy, and "rhythm" in composition.

Judd has received numerous accolades, including Overall First Place in the Plein Air Salon and multiple honors from Modern Impressionist Magazine.

A significant part of his personal narrative involves discovering his birth mother later in life and finding that she, too, was an artist.

Remarkably, they had independently painted complementary motifs, such as her painting arrows while he painted targets.

Beyond his studio practice, Judd lectures at art colleges and holds private workshops to share his techniques in drawing and painting.

Andrew Judd è un rinomato pittore Canadese contemporaneo, noto per la sua capacità di spaziare tra il realismo atmosferico, il paesaggismo en plein air e opere concettuali di stampo surrealista.

Nato a Toronto nel 1958, ha intrapreso una carriera eclettica che lo ha portato a lavorare come art director ed illustratore prima di dedicarsi interamente alla pittura.

La sua formazione presso l'Ontario College of Art ha gettato le basi per uno stile tecnico molto rigoroso, influenzato profondamente anche da un lungo soggiorno a Vienna, dove ha sviluppato una passione per la pittura nei caffè storici.