Judith Westrup

Judith Westrup is a printmaker who works in the medium of linocut. Judith’s life and art is deeply rooted in the chalk Downland, the rolling Wealden hills and the wide skies of the Thames estuary, where she explores the traces of these immensely historic landscapes. Judith works on each print intuitively, engrossed in the slow and repetitive physical processes that characterise the medium of linocut – deliberately carving the linoleum plates, carefully rolling ink and slowly winding her cast-iron press before lifting each print, layer by layer. She often overlays imperceptibly pale free-inked gradients to convey the deep stillness of ancient places, blurring the lines between ancient and present times.

Judith lives with her family at the foot of the North Downs in Kent, where she prints and teaches from her kitchen studio. Judith is also a mudlark, a hedgelayer and a recorder of Ancient and Veteran Trees, and these activities often influence her work. Judith exhibits widely in the South East. She won the Jackson’s Art prize for ‘Best Skill in Chosen Medium’ at the Benenden Art fair in 2024 and her work has been selected for exhibitions at the RE Bankside Gallery, The Horsebridge Gallery and at Ironbridge Fine Arts. Recently, her work was shortlisted for the Jackson’s Art Prize and for the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.