Judith Williams
Growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I danced and performed ballet and modern jazz for 20 years. My grandparents on both sides of my family were tailors and seamstresses. After moving to San Francisco, I studied art at San Francisco City College, California College of the Arts, and Sonoma State University where in
1995 I received a BFA in painting. I continued with a Post-Baccalaureate Tutorial working with Chester Arnold and Bob Nugent, Bay Area painters and professors. I live in Mill Valley and have taught workshops in California and Hawaii on encaustic techniques. I have shown my work extensively in the US and the Bay Area.
With an urge to layer paint and see through traces underneath, I was seduced by the Ancient Greek technique of encaustic painting combining beeswax, resin, and pigments.
Other mediums I have explored are oil, cold wax and acrylics.
