Photos, from L to R: #1. Painting "Once Tsipi's View". #2. "Lego Hero Saves City" by one of a kind artist, Judy Somerville. Perhaps, the best realistic visionary artist in the United States. An immense  national treasure.

Her biographer tells us that At age three, Judy Somerville launched her art career by taking her first art classes at MOMA. By age four she decided to become a "real" artist. At twelve she studied painting with Irving Marantz in Provincetown, Mass. That summer she painted dozens of fishing boats, beaches, and the sea. A few years later she graduated from The High School Of Music and Art and four years later earned a BA from Bard College with a fine arts major. She was selected by Lester Polokov, world renowned Broadway set designer, to study the art of set painting and briefly painted sets for a number of off Broadway shows. While continuing to paint, exhibit and travel she furiously took photographs which she later incorporated into her paintings. Ms. Somerville has traveled worldwide, exhibiting her works in more than forty invitational and one person shows. Numerous reviews and articles about her work appear in over seven different languages in various magazines, journals and newspapers. She has exhibited widely in the USA, Tokyo, Osaka, Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, Berlin and Munich and is represented in numerous collections throughout the world. She has appeared as a guest on French and Belgium TV and most recently her painting "Dave's Corner" was auctioned off at Christies East.

 

She is presently represented by The Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York City.  For information you may contact Judy Somerville: e-mail:  judygregsomerville@yahoo.com Summerville' most enchanting and unusual esthetical statements go like this:

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