The Art of Judy Hoiness
Explorative usage of watercolor, acrylic paint on paper, canvas, recycled cloth, and mixed media. combined with Imaginative design elements, contribute to the artist’s style, which reveals simplified and abstracted shapes played against areas of more representational imagery. Her paintings and textile works are a personal statement about wildlife and wild places in Oregon and in The Northern Great Basin.
Judy has lived and worked in Bend, Oregon for over 50 years. Her work is often described as abstract landscapes that often incorporates calligraphic marks, collage and mixed media.
Bend Oregon Artist
Meet Judy
A fourth generation Oregonian, Judy Hoiness holds two degrees in Art, a Bachelors degree and a Fifth Year from Portland State University and a Masters degree from Syracuse University. She retired as an Adjunct Art Faculty from Central Oregon Community College. Her teaching career has spanned over thirty-six years.
Working in watercolor, mixed media and acrylic she has garnered over 50 awards in international, national, and regional exhibitions.
Major highlights include a one woman exhibition, selected by the Oregon Arts Commission for the Governor’s Ceremonial Office at the State Capitol in Salem, Oregon; honored with many commissions public and private; and many one, two and three person and group shows nationally and regionally.
Her paintings have been published in five books on watercolor. An article on her work can be found in WATERCOLOR Magazine, winter 2002 issue. She is a juried member of societies such as the National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America and the Northwest Watercolor
Featured Painting: Protect Wildlife and Habitat
5x6ft acrylic/canvas
Commissioned by Deschutes Public Library for the Sunriver Branch
Bend Oregon ARtist
The Many facets of Judy Hoiness’ Art.
Judy is aways exploring what is possible with visual art. Her art mixes landscapes with abstraction, calligraphy and often with mixed media.