She takes inspiration from the tideline, responding to the movement of water over sand.
Judith’s practice takes inspiration from the tideline. She responds to the movement of water over sand as ripples, channels, indents and small objects are devoted by the sea to land at shore. She is drawn to edges, curves, and the particularities of detail in textures making her work extremely tactile and each piece unique.
Each ceramic piece incorporates traditional hand-building techniques of pinching and coiling. The process is slow with porcelain requiring careful treatment. With experimentation forming the basis of her practice, Judith embeds textures into each piece after which they are fired. Once ready, the pigments are applied to the surface and after washing back, each work is layered in colour revealing texture and unique markings. The work is sealed with wax with some of them requiring inlay wax within holes and crevices.
In addition to her unique ceramic pieces, Judith produces drawings on oriental paper. These are layered in washes of inks prepared from high quality pigments she finds, and occasionally incorporates found materials from specific locations within these two-dimensional works, adding traces of these places into her works.