Bartlett Art Association Fall Exhibition

I am honored to have been invited to judge Bartlett Art Association's Fall Exhibition. There were many wonderful paintings and the judging task was not easy!! Congratulations to all for a beautiful show and especially to the winning paintings. If you want to see BAA's Fall Exhibition, it will be at St Francis Hospital Bartlett through November. ‪#‎artshow‬ ‪#‎bartlettartassociation‬‪#‎judynocifora‬ ‪#‎judynociforastudio‬ ‪#‎artshowbartlettartassociation‬

Marc Wheetley, BAA member and Judy Joy Nocifora

Winter, Winter Go Away

Ah… summer will come!  Here's a little warmth for all those in cold, snowy places!

Having a Beach Blast

12 x 16 oil on linen panel

©Judy Joy Nocifora

SOLD

Honor To Be Invited

What a great way to start 2015 at Judy Joy Nocifora Studio!

I have truly been honored with an invitation to show my paintings at the Customs House Museum's Winter Art Exhibit:  Right Before My Eyes: A Still LIfe Invitational. Clarksville, TN.   The show will be at the Museum from January 8 - March 1, 2015.  There are twelve other very fine artists in the show… Jason Saunders and Camille Engle from Nashville, TN to name a few.  This exhibit is sponsored by Nashville Arts Magazine.  

If you are in the Clarksville, TN area, I hope you will stop in to see this exhibit.

Best wishes to all for much joy, good health and peace in 2015.

Incognito 2014 - Memphis Botanic Gardens Fundraiser

Henrietta II by Judy Joy Nocifora Finds a Home!

 2014 INCOGNITO fundraiser for the Botanic Garden was a big success. A huge crowd enjoyed good food, music and wine while having fun trying to outbid others for that special piece of art you've just got to have.

Henrietta

Henrietta from Judy Joy Nocifora Studio on Square Market

Cow'll Me Irresistible on Square Market

White Orchids and Blue Willow

White Orchids and Blue Willow 

©Judy Joy Nocifora Studio

14x14" oil on linen canvas panel

I have several orchid plants and it is so exciting when those gorgeous blooms burst forth from their little green pods.  The white phalaenopsis orchids are a challenge to paint.  They are delicately luminous and white,  yet they reflect colors and have subtle shadows.  The Blue Willow cup is from my mother's collection.  It is extremely thin porcelain and very old.  This painting is framed in a fabulous wide silver floater frame and available at The Shops of DCI.  If you have not been by The Shops of DCI, you are missing one of Memphis' finest shops where you will find gorgeous furniture, art, and wonderful gifts for the home and a collection of personal gifts.  Gifted designer, Terri Panitz and staff are ready to assist you with all your home design needs.  

Just Beachy - SOLD

Just Beachy is one of the paintings completed "plein air" during and annual, spring painting trip to Apalachicola, Florida.  It is a great ten days painting with friends and hosted by my friend and neighbor, Denise Rose  during Florida's Forgotten Coast Plein Air Event in May.  The whole area along this part of Florida is "eye candy" for an artist.  Some of America's best plein air artist are invited to participate in the event and our group and others who come to paint on The Forgotten Coast,  enjoy being able to watch these artists create their incredible, masterful works!

Mark your calendars and come on down to The Forgotten Coast of Florida in May 2014.  You will love it!  :)

Just Beachy - 9 x 12" - Oil on linen

©Judy Joy Nocifora

Cool Moo've - SOLD

Cool Moo've by Judy Joy Nocifora ©2013

12 x 12" oil on linen

SOLD

Bozarts Gallery Juried Exchange Show

I am happy to have been juried into Bozarts Gallery Exchange Show.  My work will be showing at Bozarts Gallery for the month of June.
Opening Reception is June 7, 6-9 pm in Water Vallery, Mississippi .  Ya'll come on down!!

Peggi Kroll Roberts Workshop - Nashville, TN

Peggi Kroll Roberts Workshop

Freshly Baked Cookies,  Peggi Kroll Roberts Style.
Made by Jeanie Smith, Workshop Organizer.

Value Studies by Peggi Kroll Roberts

Peggi's  "Limited Stroke" Figure Painting with Live Model

 

This is How Peggi Sketches on the Beach

Peggi's Painting Demo - No Reference - Just Experience!

Peggi Kroll Roberts Workshop Participants Nashville, TN  - July 2012

Peggi Kroll Roberts is one of the most gifted drawing and painting instructors that I have had the pleasure of working with.  Her teaching style,  her lessons are all thoughtfully and skillfully structured.  She is so present with you at your easel and gives you constructive, honest and helpful comments that will definitely move you another  level.  I've never seen anyone work harder to help you as does Peggi.  Thanks Peggi for a fabulous three days in Nashville.  I love learning from you!

Thanks Jeanie Smith for a great job in organizing this workshop.  

Pansy Potpourri I

 Pansy Potpourri I -  by Judy Joy Nocifora ©2012

Oil on linen panel - 10 x 12" (framed) 

"My new j joynocifora painting! The photo doesn't do it justice."  Thanks Judy!

(From collector and friend, Gina Stokes Buck)

Thank you, Gina!

New "Visual Language Magazine" from CFAI

Visual Language Magazine from CFAI

I just wanted to share a beautiful, new, online, visual art magazine from CFAI (Contemporary Fine Art International) several months ago.  Their publications include the March, April and May issues.  Yours truly has a half-page entry in the issue shown below, along with many other artist friends that you will quickly recognize.  Enjoy!

Click on this link to view the May issue:  http://issuu.com/cfai.co/docs/visuallanguage/1

"The Big Apple"

"The Big Apple"

by J Joy Nocifora ©2011

8 x 10 oil on canvas panel (unframed)

I just love a big, shiny, red apple! I remember the ones that my mom always put in my school lunch, which I quickly traded for a friend's vanilla wafers filled with marshmallow creme. Who could resist? I did not think about the apple's beauty then, but if we had traded on the basis of beauty, then of course my apple would have been the object of desire.

"The Big Apple" is available at auction in my Daily Paintworks Gallery. Bidding starts at just $50. Click here.