JUDITH McCABE-JARVIS has always had passion for the visual arts. She studied at The Tyler School of Art and spent a year in Rome studying Art History and painting extensively. She graduated from Tyler in 1981.
During the 1980s and 1990s, she exhibited in the Philadelphia area at top-flight galleries including Gross McCleaf, Woodmere Art Museum and the Hahn Gallery. In addition to painting a variety of subjects that she selects and interprets in her iconoclastic style — featuring wit and whimsy — she draws commissioned portraits in a unique style to reflect the subject’s individual personality.
Ms. McCabe-Jarvis has had many influences in her art. She loves subtle and humorous New Yorker magazine covers, the powerful narrative, religious themes of the Renaissance Painters, and the modern American painters such as Hopper and Fairfield Porter. She is in awe of the controlled abandon of Andrew Wyeth’s watercolors and the subtle ways in which he depicts the landscape. Since her move to Chadds Ford with her two daughters, she has had the opportunity to render unique interpretations of the muchpainted Brandywine Valley.