Judith standing next to her painting "Monuments"
“I once read that in life, there is much cruelty and terror but also a wondrous and overpowering beauty. Both forces are necessary and together they create a mysterious and remarkable world – a world that dwells at the heart of all my work.”
Judith Jaffe is an Expressionist and Surrealist artist celebrating over fifty years of pursuing her creative vision in paintings, works on paper, printmaking, and mixed media artworks. Inspired by personal experiences, she creates visionary Surrealist and Expressionist paintings of multihued landscapes, dramatic family scenes, mysterious still lifes, and depictions of women and feminine figures in various settings. Using traditional and experimental media, she often incorporates mixed media and collage into her artwork, and is informed by her lifelong practice of drawing the figure.