An experienced art therapist, Judith Kerns Morris, knows the power painting holds to suggest a story, or stir a long-forgotten memory. Her sensuous language of color and brushstroke evoke feelings directly, and her symbols emerge unhampered by intellectual notions of “proper" perspective.

 

She mingles ancient icons from Asia, Europe, and Meso-America with familiar forms she learned as the daughter of a Midwest estate auctioneer. Memories of lawns and screened porches, summer’s first iced tea, and luscious fruit join images of petroglyphs, Quan Yin, and the Dark Virgin.

 

“My hope is to share some joy and magic with others,” Ms. Morris explains, “to intimate a romantic idea, and or tender thought, to catch us up in laughter, or to render us in that moment when we are just ALIVE.”

 

Education:

• Urbana University, Urbana, Ohio – Teachers Program

• BFA, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio

  • Major – Painting

  • Minor – Illustration & Sculpture

• CMT Certification – California

Work:

• Art Therapy – Harding Hospital, Worthington, Ohio

• Teacher – C.C.A.D Children’s Program, Columbus, Ohio

• Brentano’s Bookstore, San Rafael, California - Manager

• Great Acorn Company – Gift Store and Gallery – Art Engineer/Co-Owner

Shows:

• Great Acorn Company

• Branson School Gallery

• Indian Valley College

• Community Congregational Church, Tiburon

• Marin Open Studios

• Dominican University of California – Various artists