While great in variety, these works seduce the eye with their textural intricacies that appear to spill beyond their borders. Emerging from the figurative tradition of portraiture, Judith Hinton Andrew has turned from the world of direct observation to her own inner landscape, emphasizing the process itself over a clearly defined vision of the finished work. The resulting abstract work represents an emergence of the intuitive and the primal, of pure expressive gesture that is able to both integrate and supersede formal and academic aspects of her background training.
As Hinton Andrew explains,” My painting is a continual exploration of the secret undercurrents that lie behind the mask of matter, fact and ordinary human behavior. This search characteristically has a longing for some other reality, something transcendent, magical and elusive.”