Judith Mariner interview by Tracie Reed continued

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TR- What inspiring words would you give your admirers who want to follow in your footsteps?

Judith- Young artists?

TR- Yeah! Someone who sees your work and really admires your style. How you do your work?

Judith- To be true to themselves. To listen deeply within your own heart and we're influenced by everything.

If a young artist feels it's important to copy various artists styles that they admire- even when you do that there's a possibility for your own authenticity to come though. So the bottom line is to be true to your own vision. Trust it and there for you would end up being authentic.

TR- Do you use certain oils. Painting oils?

Judith- Primarily oils the past few years. A lot of water colors. Oils are what it's at. Oils are rich and luscious and wonderful.

TR- So, you're more a spiritual painter? Like you said, what you see is what you paint.

Judith- Absolutely! I mean a lot of my focus has been spirit, consciousness. The unfolding of human consciousness, the expansion of human unconsciousness, growth.

So looking at white woman over there- (Judith points to her painting on the wall with the woman wearing black with her top opened up, sitting down with a chalice by her.) She's a psychological study, really. She's wealthy, She has everything on the material plane, and what I call, flat land, which is the world of materialism. We tend to forget we have depth of being.

So she's disenchanted. She's tired of pre-material existence. She doesn't know it but she's right on the edge of being able to discover that there is a greater depth and a deeper meaning to her beingness and that symbol there that chalice next to her limp hand.

She's not aware of but it's symbolic in her own inner being. Her higher self in her own.

So, she's right at the edge of disenchantment with the world to very possibly waking up and finding a deeper essence of herself. In my work a lot of my work is about that. There's a whole chalice series in here. (We both look around at all of her paintings)

TR- They're like stories.

Judith- Sometimes people make stories out of my work. But a lot of these pieces have a chalice which is the Holy Grail.

(Judith walks around and points at her paintings that have the chalice in them.)

Judith- So I did a whole latest series of art with chalices in it.

TR- Did you ever keep any of your art from when you first started?

Judith- Attics full! Attics full!

Judith adds that she does all kinds of commissions portraits. Individual portraits, group portraits. Sometimes she gets a commission to do whatever she wants. 

Judith will have a show in September 2003 at the Gallery 410. It will be a show titled Roots. It will be a group of real interesting, mostly local painters in the show. She is putting together a one woman show for 2004. It may be in her new studio. She will publicize the show in the local newspapers.

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