Judy Werlin was born in South Hadley, Massachusetts, attended Wellesley College, Mount Holyoke College, Parsons and The Silvermine School of Art, and taught middle school in Manhattan and portrait and still life at Silvermine and at the Irvington Studio School in Westchester.

What matters to me in my work is imagery. Of course, I want to see lots of physical properties like color, line and texture, but that stuff is everywhere in the physical world in profusion already. I’m interested in showing my reactions to life through the use of images – of speaking metaphorically through the choice and arrangement of images. To me painting and poetry are closely related. I hope the images I use speak for themselves.

My paintings are done with oils on wood panels. Often the panels are shaped or have objects glued onto them. I am also currently working with computer-altered black and white copies of my own paintings and drawings incorporated into my paintings. In this way I can play around with using digital images without breaking my own rule of using only images produced by the human mind and eyes.