Jude Lobe

I paint because I love the process of creating, allowing the voice within me to emerge through spontaneous expression. It’s like consciously dreaming, letting thoughts come and go and grow while time stands still. My landscape paintings are my way of preserving the endangered landscape. When I create a work, it has stirred something inside me. Sometimes it’s a dramatic shadow from a tree stretching across the grass, or a pond early in the morning glistening as if it is waking up and jumping for joy. Sometimes it’s the juxtaposition of inanimate objects that relate to me something more human, like two old and worn boats side by side seeming more like old friends remembering younger and more active times. Although my landscape paintings rarely have people in them, there is always something very human about them.