Judy Odell was born and raised in the Northwest, consequently she is naturally drawn to the sea. She has an incredible view of Puget Sound from her home and in recent years has discovered sport fishing by casting her line from her own beach on Puget Sound. Her abstracts, seascapes, landscapes, sea birds and brightly colored florals, for which she is nationally acclaimed, represent the abundance and color of the West Coast.
One of my favorites of Judy Odell’s giclees is of the old cabins that used to be on the beach in front of her home. Of course they are gone now and new large Puget Sound homes are in their place but her art captures a sense of what life used to be in our region. “The camera records realism much more accurately than the artist could, but it is the artist’s task to improve on realism by leaving something to the imagination of the viewer.” She definitely achieves her goal!
The original of “Beach Shacks” hangs in the Edmonds Library and is included in the City of Edmonds Wa. permanent collection.
The Point No Point Lighthouse painting was used for the poster for the Lighthouse Society. Judy Odell thanks Jeff Gales, Director of the U.S. Lighthouse Society, for encouraging her to paint her Point No Point Lighthouse painting and for using it for the US. Lighthouse commerative poster. The painting was later donated to The Friends of the Point No Point Lighthouse and was raffled this past summer to raise funds for the preservation of the lighthouse. The Point No Point Lighthouse in Hansville, Wa is headquarters of the United States Lighthouse Society.
The “Springtime” giclee is a large 36″ x 48″ and was used for the poster for the Kitsap Arts and Crafts Festival in 2011. Judy is working in coordination with their scholarship fund. The original was painted in 1984 and won first prize in the Kitsap Arts and Crafts Festival that year. Nordstrom had asked artists for paintings for window displays and this one was chosen and displayed with shoes of all the colors in the painting. Wouldn’t that have been a site to see!
Judy Odell paints in an impressionistic style in oil, watercolor and acrylic. She has studied with the great Russian artist, Sergei Bongart and with John Solminen, an internationally acclaimed watercolorist. Judy is a long-standing member of the Seattle Co-Arts, International Society of Acrylic Painters, San Diego Watercolor Society, and the Pt. Loma Artists Assn.
“Artists never retire. That is why we are so happy. The days are not long enough and there is so much out there to paint.”
Visit Judy at her web site or contact her for a commission or purchase. www.judyodell.com/Site/Welcome.html
Or visit her blog http://judyodell.blogspot.com/
