Judith Ellen Sanders — Paintings on Canvas and Paper

GBH Boston's Community Canvas - Love Song by Judith Ellen Sanders
A 30 ft by 45 ft Digital Mural embedded in the exterior wall of GBH Studios
'Judith Ellen Sanders combines the synergies of the botanical world with
vibrant colors and flowing forms to explore nuanced feelings of
expansiveness and possibility...'

'Brilliantly Placed in Fitchburg'
Artscope Magazine - July/August 2024
By Madeleine Lord
There are many charming works that hang in the alcove between the two large galleries. In bright tropical regalia, Carolyn Letvin's weaving, “Fiesta”, rejoices alongside Judith Ellen Sanders' acrylic painting, “Eventide.”

'No barrier to beauty'
Lexington residents turn blocks of concrete into objects of art
The Lexington Minuteman
by Pamela Rice
Judith Ellen Sanders, an accomplished Munroe studio artist whose paintings can be found in corporate collections throughout the Boston area, created two banners and was thrilled to be part of the project. “I love working large and using bold, vibrant colors to create uplifting and positive images. Cristina, the Munroe Center and the ArtWalk Committee do such a great job at bringing people together. It’s wonderful to be able to walk through town and see a celebration of the community and art, especially during these challenging times,” she said...

'Remembrance Memorial Monument’ opening at BCC gallery'
The Herald News
Judith Ellen Sanders submission for the show offers us a different perspective – recreating an environment of our collective memory of ideas of home. And in doing so, she establishes the hope of continuity, of renewal, and the possibilities of beginning. Sanders’ dual interests in the art and sciences percolate through her work...

'Peaceful Elements'
The Weston Town Crier
Sanders has come to understand that nature with its flowing reactions and beautiful molecules, and art with its flowing forms and rainbow colors are really two threads leading to the same center of vibrancy and transformation. Images of expansiveness are always her focus, as she works to create pieces that convey joy, peacefulness, and possibility.

'Scene and Herd: Artist focuses her art on the sciences'
The Lexington issue of Wicked Local
by Martha Crosier Wood
She works in bold chromatic colors. "I like colors that move. I love vibrant, vivid colors. They give a visual expanse of colors…I like to work on both canvas and paper. The white of the paper really brings out the color," Sanders went on. "I love pattern, but a dynamic type of pattern."

'Spirituality meets biochemistry'
The Greenfield Recorder
by Cheryl Rezendes Rulewich
One fine day, Judith Ellen Sanders was sitting in a science class at the University of Massachusetts, preparing for her masters degree in nutrition, when her other life as a visual artist changed forever...Her professor had just drawn a biochemical pathway on the blackboard...She found it to be nothing short of stunning…

'Sanders' work of overlapping forms blossoms into art'
The Art Scene
The Greenfield Recorder
by Nina Bander
The late physicist David Bohm believed that the creative process of both the scientist and the artist were very similar. In his book called "On Creativity", Bohm states that " scientist nor artist is really satisfied to regard beauty as that which tickles one's fancy. Rather, in both fields structures are somehow evaluated, consciously or unconsciously, by whether they are true to themselves, and are accepted or rejected on this basis so the artist really needs a scientific attitude to his work, as the scientist must have an artistic attitude to his." This beauty appears in both fields when an artist or scientist clicks into a solution or theorem that somehow assimilates into a dynamic and creative totality. This is the sensibility inspiring Amherst artist Judith Ellen Sanders, a painter whose designs describe the elegance of scientific and artistic thought. Sanders began to link the two processes together while pursuing a master degree in biochemistry at University of Massachusetts…

'Sanders' Paintings are Complex'
by Bonnie Wells
The day after Judith Ellen Sanders of Pelham earned a master's degree in science from the University of Massachusetts, she went out and got herself an art studio and began painting full time. "In this tiny cell, there are these worlds, one thing turning into another," Sanders says, bending over a biochemistry book in her Amherst studio. "That's what I want to convey in my work, all this transformation. Science made me want to go into the studio and translate that sense of expansiveness on canvas."

'Flow charts - Judith Sanders's moving paintings'
The Worcester Phoenix
by Leon Nigrosh
Viewing Judith Sanders's paintings is like revisiting that Oscar- winning sci-fi picture "Fantastic Voyage," in which a medical team is reduced to microscopic size and injected into a human body. No, the walls are not covered with pictures of Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch, but each painting does owe a strong allegiance to the microbes, erythrocytes, ganglia, and other biological formations that played a major role in the movie.The natural marvels of biology are, in fact, the basis of Sanders's works...

'Sweet Science - Judith Ellen Sanders: a biologist's training, an artist's eye'
The Valley Advocate
by Lisa Gallay
...One has the sensation of watching a sensitive scientific mind grapple with and respond to the mystery and wonder of the natural world, to the part of biology that doesn't yield its secrets to the scientific method. It's as if in painting an interior landscape (or seascape, as it so often seems in these pieces), Sanders is replaying the parts of her scientific study that science itself could not describe: the grandeur and mystical energy of growing life forms, the elegant shapes of creatures and plants, the way they retain their elegance and their curiously visible power and vitality at the microscopic level. Sanders' work represents a visual expression of both the questions that remain where science leaves off and of the images that haunt a sensitive consciousness. It is precisely this sort of haunting that lies behind most interdisciplinary work. When one language (or discipline) won't do, try two.

Judith Ellen Sanders interview by Melissa Goldberg
Judith Ellen Sanders' work is full of vibrant colors and images that captivate the viewer. Lines, curves, circles, and colors weave together to form patterns that invite the imagination to speculate how the artist could have painted such intricate, hypnotizing works of art.

GBH Boston's Community Canvas
30 ft x 45 ft Digital Mural presented by The Culture Show
Today’s Mural 'Love Song' is by Judith Ellen Sanders

‘Brilliantly Place in Fitchburg'
by Madeleine Lord

'No barrier to beauty' Lexington residents
turn blocks of concrete into objects of art
by Pamela Rice

‘Remembrance Memorial Monument’ opening at BCC gallery
from the Herald News

First Parish: 'Peaceful Elements'
from the Weston Town Crier

Scene and Herd: Artist focuses her art on the sciences
by Martha Crosier Wood

Spirtuality meets biochemistry
by Cheryl Rezendes

The Art Scene: Sanders' work of overlapping forms blossoms into art
by Nina Bander

Chaos and order, constancy and change meet in Sanders’ complex paintings
by Bonnie Wells

Flow charts: Judith Sanders's moving paintings
by Leon Nigrosh

Sweet Science, Judith Ellen Sanders: a biologist's training, an artist's eye
by Lisa Gallay

Judith Ellen Sanders, Painter
by Melissa Goldberg

Transformation and Balance - Seed Magazine