{"id":10062,"date":"2015-10-09T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10062"},"modified":"2016-09-07T11:25:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T16:25:43","slug":"artists-i-love-amy-judd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10062","title":{"rendered":"Art I Love: Amy Judd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"JuxtapozAmyJudd10\" href=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/703\/21915867505_12b4629b9d_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"JuxtapozAmyJudd10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/703\/21915867505_12b4629b9d_b.jpg\" alt=\"JuxtapozAmyJudd10\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><a title=\"JuxtapozAmyJudd11\" href=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/586\/21727825050_dcd2a9f5bc_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"JuxtapozAmyJudd11\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/586\/21727825050_dcd2a9f5bc_b.jpg\" alt=\"JuxtapozAmyJudd11\" width=\"714\" height=\"964\" \/><\/a><a title=\"JuxtapozAmyJudd00\" href=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/760\/21915866805_c6c0e27201_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"JuxtapozAmyJudd00\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/760\/21915866805_c6c0e27201_b.jpg\" alt=\"JuxtapozAmyJudd00\" width=\"714\" height=\"972\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I see art that just takes my breath away&#8211; London artist Amy Judd&#8217;s oil paintings do just that. The bold black backgrounds, the softness of skin and feathers, the space to breathe in the grey\/blue backgrounds&#8230; there is something so calming and feminine about her work that just appeals to me.<\/p>\n<p><em>The composition, light and positioning of the subject, creates curious images, which conjure up new \u201cmythological\u201d narratives or creatures within the paintings. A recurring theme is the use of Feathers as armour, and birds as familiars. The more surreal nude compositions are bold and strong, the feathers allude to strength, flight and bravery, rather than fragility. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8211;Hicks Gallery<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"JuxtapozAmyJudd01\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5654\/21728037928_cf6c8861bb_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"JuxtapozAmyJudd01\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5654\/21728037928_cf6c8861bb_b.jpg\" alt=\"JuxtapozAmyJudd01\" width=\"714\" height=\"532\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Amy-Judd-Paintings_07\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5681\/21729006629_4596de73a3_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Amy-Judd-Paintings_07\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5681\/21729006629_4596de73a3_b.jpg\" alt=\"Amy-Judd-Paintings_07\" width=\"710\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Amy-Judd-Paintings_09\" href=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/662\/21925594341_50a3c6089c_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Amy-Judd-Paintings_09\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/662\/21925594341_50a3c6089c_b.jpg\" alt=\"Amy-Judd-Paintings_09\" width=\"705\" height=\"705\" \/><\/a>This is art I would hang in our home, in grand scale, had I the extra thousands to spend on such beautiful work! Ah, wishes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I see art that just takes my breath away&#8211; London artist Amy Judd&#8217;s oil paintings do just that. The bold black backgrounds, the softness of skin and feathers, the space to breathe in the grey\/blue backgrounds&#8230; there is something so calming and feminine about her work that just appeals to me. The composition, light &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=10062\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Art I Love: Amy Judd&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-10062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10062"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10071,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062\/revisions\/10071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}