Judy Woodborne is a printmaker and painter based in Cape Town, South Africa. She was awarded her Masters of Fine Arts Degree with Distinction from the University of Cape Town in 1993 with a dissertation entitled Moria, a Eulogy of Folly. She currently runs her own studio at Spencer Street Studio in Salt River, Cape Town.

Her main inspiration comes from various trips she has undertaken around the world. Trips to Hong Kong and the south of China have inspired her recent works: The Elements, a series of paintings of earth, air, fire and water.

"Water is equated with wisdom, as the Daoist image of water always finding its way around obstacles. Restless water is a Buddhist symbol of the impermanence of all things; still water symbolizes meditative insight. In psychoanalysis it represents the depth of the unconscious.... And water also divides the worlds of the living and the dead, of the natural and the supernatural."
[from: Dictionary of Symbols in Myth, Art and Literature. Editor: Jack Tresidder]

My training as a printmaker working with metals and acids has evoked an interest in Alchemy and the idea of the artist as a modern-day alchemist. Taking inspiration from the world around us to create an artwork of beauty and value through the creative alchemical process of the artist's vision.