Medium and Style: Abstract landscape artist, painting in acrylics.

Location: The Cotswolds, south west of England.

About the artist: Jude McKenna is an contemporary abstract  landscape artist, whose graduated with a degree in Fine art painting from the University of Gloucestershire. Her work is a response to the landscape, in which each painting takes on their own character as they progress, with the aim of making them dreamlike and meditative spaces in which to escape and dream.

Artist statement: My abstract landscape paintings are not necessarily grounded in the reality of a place, but are often imagined, with a tenuous link to a real place or memory. They are meditative atmospheric spaces, almost inner landscapes, which are emotional responses to memories or my feelings about a place I may have been to, dreamed of or imagined. Half remembered, half forgotten, I'm attempting to draw you in to my abstracted space, to immerse you visually so that you may decide what you see and what it means to you.  They aim to stir something within the viewer, they resonate to remind you of a place you think you may have been but may not fully recall. When you engage with the paintings, you  may experience mists,stillness, changing weather, seasons, showers, breezes, sunrises, sunsets. Hopefully you will have an emotional response. Ultimately the paintings aim to be meditative spaces, to dream and escape.

Exhibitions and Collectors: Jude's work has been collected widely and lives all around the globe. She is regularly commissioned by clients to produce work of varying sizes. She has formerly exhibited at the Affordable art fair and has exhibited with Manchester art fair for the last 4 years. 

She is represented by Cotswold Contemporary in Cirencester, Burford and Marlow, The Gallery in Maldon, and the Watermill Gallery in Aberfeldy.

Current Work: The work on show this year at Manchester is a continuation of Jude's ongoing theme of creating contemporary abstract meditavie and evocative landscapes. All work can be shipped throughout the UK and abroad upon request.