Judy Stalus lives on 50 acres of beautiful gardens, woodlands and fields in Walpole, New Hampshire. She enjoys living here with her husband and daughter. She says that despite the harsh climate of northern New England, she has flowers in blossom through November from March. She grows hundreds of varieties but has a special love of iris, tulips, poppies and peonies. She has iris in bloom for many months from iris cristata of early spring and the tiny iris reticulata to the summer blooms of bearded, Japanese, Louisiana, and Siberian iris. perennial poppies and voluptuous peonies are followed by tens of Icelandic and annual poppies. Her flowers and gardens are the basis for most of her current photography. Judy photographs flowers in the house, in the garden, very close and from afar and through every season.
Her photos can be seen at mysticwynd.blogspot.com, brightboldbeautiful.blogspot.com, theprettybee.blogspot.com, HJM Art Gallery Blog, Simply Hue, Keene State College, Sharon Arts Center, Silverman Arts Center, Mill Pond Gallery, Vermont Center for Photography, Green Tree Gallery, Walpole Artisans Cooperative, and The Soho Gallery. Judy began photographing more than 40 years ago and her work has changed with her as her life has changed. All of her images are printed with archival pigmented inks on watercolor, fine art, or rice papers. All of them are signed on the back. Judy was a film photographer printing both color and black-and-white in her darkroom until just recently when she was seduced by the magic of Photoshop. She now prints exclusively digitally.
