Judith C. Carbine

The roots of my thirty years as a painter can be found in my childhood and youth growing up on a dairy farm in Vermont, in piano and organ study beginning at an early age and continuing through college, and in creative projects for church and school. The significance of my experiences living in the Green Mountains, and as a musician, is an integral part of my identity with the subjects I paint.

I discovered early the work of the American and European impressionists. Their use of color, light, and brushwork, and the need to capture a specific moment in time and space has been, and continues to be, most appealing to me as a painter. I have studied with contemporary painters Frank Webb, Milford Zornes, Henry Fukuhara, Harry Dayton, Don Andrews, and Charles Sovek. These artists, and my study of the impressionists, have given me a vocabulary for painting a picture. This accumulated knowledge has allowed me to develop a means for a personal interpretation of a subject.

I believe what Degas said about painting: “A painting should always be a product of the artist’s imagination. It should never be a copy.”