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.