Judy has been producing and selling at art galleries and craft festivals throughout the Southeast since 1987. Her introduction to the jewelry arts was sparked while living in Naples, Florida in the early '80's working in oil painting and occasionally making stained glass panels, boxes, sculptures and kaleidoscopes. Using a microwave kiln fusing the leftover scraps of glass into colourful cabachons which led to a friend introducing her to wire-art jewelry.

  In 2000 Judy and her husband John moved to Western North Carolina where she was introduced to John C. Campbell Folk School here in Brasstown. Taking classes there and soon learning about William Holland School of Lapidary Arts in Young Harris GA.

  More than 50 classes later at both schools Judy now teaches her art to students at the two schools that have taught her the art of wire jewelry design.

  Judy believes that continuing her own education in the jewelry arts helps her to bring both classic and modern, innovative wire art design to the classroom.