JUDY MORRIS earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in art
education from Southern Oregon University in Ashland,
Oregon. She taught art at South Medford High School for
thirty years before retiring in 1996 to become a full time
professional watercolorist.
In the last fifteen years Morris has been a popular juror
and workshop teacher throughout the country and in
Canada, Mexico, England, Switzerland, France, Italy, and
Japan.
Her paintings have received more than fifty national and
regional awards and have been included in exhibitions
throughout the country, most recently those sponsored by
the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor
Society, and the Transparent Watercolor Society of
America.
In 2005 her painting, CHINATOWN: SAN FRANCISCO
was given the Clara Stroud Memorial Award in the 138th
international exhibition of the American Watercolor
Society in New York City. She has had numerous feature
articles in national publications including the
August/September 2005 issue of INTERNATIONAL
ARTIST MAGAZINE.
Judy is one of 15 artists who have written a chapter in
WATERCOLOR SECRETS just released by North Light
Books.
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Her work hangs in public and private collections from
California to New York, Canada to Mexico, and in Europe.
She has been a member of the Watercolor Society of
Oregon since 1980 and is a signature member of the
American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society,
the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, and the
Northwest Watercolor Society. She is also a member of
the West Coast Watercolor Society whose elected
membership is limited to fifty artists living in the Pacific
coast states.
Her work has been included in more than a dozen recent
watercolor books and publications including SPLASH 4,
SPLASH 5, SPLASH 7 (See an image of her painting on
the back cover), SPLASH 8, and SPLASH 9. She is the
author of WATERCOLOR BASICS: LIGHT published by
North Light Books.
Morris has been selected for inclusion in the 21st Edition
of Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in the
World 2000, and the recent edition of Who’s Who in
America.
Her original watercolors are available at the Mockingbird
Gallery in Bend, Oregon, the Hanson Howard Gallery in
Ashland, Oregon, and at Yoshida’s Fine Art Gallery in
Portland, Oregon.
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