Women in Art 278 Magazine April 2016 | Page 27

British/American artist Judith Zur Oil figurative Judith Zur is a selftaught portrait painter who has lived in the United Kingdom, USA and Latin America. She is a psychotherapist and anthropologist who began painting as a hobby when young and began to paint professionally after receiving commissions for portraits. While living in Guatemala as an Anthropologist, she took photos about themes of women and children, subsistence and survival and later began painting from these themes creating her first exhibition called “The Colors of Survival.” She continues painting these themes in Mexico and the United Kingdom. She paints exclusively in oil with brush work and palette knife when working with oil and cold wax.