Judith Swift is a self taught UK artist. Born in Lancashire (brought up on the Fylde) her interest in natural history and climbing took her to the North Lancashire/ Cumbria border 25 years ago. Here in the Silverdale/Arnside area she was encouraged by local artists to start painting again and exhibit her work.
Initially she painted watercolour illustrations, (often on a miniature scale)of wildlife inspired by academic studies in biological recording and volunteer work at local nature reserves.
More recently her work has been on a larger scale inspired by numerous trips to the Himalayas. Using her own photographs as references she recreats the spectacular landscape in oils. Her paintings are realistic and incredably detailed. She invites the viewer to linger and study the mountain terrain as a climber or naturalist would. Painting in oils, each layer has to be dry before the next is applied. She can spend months sometimes over a year to complete a canvas.

Her work has been appeared in many local exhibitions and galleries over the years. In 2025 her work gained a wider audience and was exhibited at the Royal Miniature Society, annual exhibition at the Bankside Gallery, London.

The website is regularily updated, with details of exhibitions and future events in the "news" section of the website.

To see how her most recent paintings are evolving you can also visit the "work in progress sections".
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Thank you again for visiting.

Judith Swift 07/03/26