J.E. ZANDER BIO Born in Washington, D.C., in the late 1950's; educated, Long Island, N.Y..
The artist worked in print advertising for twenty years. Typesetting in New York City led to newspaper work and then to movie advertising typography in Los Angeles. This led the way to digital graphic design in Honolulu and web development in upstate New York. Since the year 2000, she has primarilly focussed on fine art.

Starting as a teenager, Judith has drawn curving, intense, often surreal and abstract designs bordering on the psychedelic, (originally, with a .03 nib Rapidograph pen) on paper. These days, such designs go by the evocative term, tribal.

Since the year 2002, seasonally, the artist has combed wild Western Newfoundland beaches of Atlantic Canada, to acquire raw materials, and she has worked them into true driftwood art. Judith recycles these weathered relics of blown-down trees and battered lobster traps, and gives them a renewed existence and purpose. Through large windows with marvelous views of lighthouse and harbour, Judith works in her studio, formerly of the painter and art teacher Helen Byrne of Cornerbrook who taught painting to local children.

DESCRIPTION OF ARTWORK For many years this artist has worked with found objects, most often driftwood from the Western Newfoundland shoreline. You will see some of this work on these pages. With a penchant for rambling organically flowing design, with a vivid color palette, Judith paints new life into the found wood.

Judith works on canvas each Winter, began this series in 2005. These acrylic paintings are filled characteristically filled with swirl and bright color.

MATERIALS AND FORM Judith creates these paintings on canvas, and the sculptural driftwood artwork. The sculptural driftwood artwork is displayed in varying ways; some are grouped in deep shadow box framing, some as singular sculptures that stand on their own, some hang elegantly across a wall space, and there are others small enough to be handled and kept as nature totems.