Judy Watts, Artist - Camden Art Shoppes

Judy Watts is a native South Carolinian who has lived all over – from the North Carolina mountains to the California desert to the forests of Germany – and found there’s no place like her hometown of Camden, South Carolina.

She is currently a studio artist at Camden Art Shoppes where her popular oil-on-canvas paintings feature local and Charleston area landscapes. Her paintings are mostly inspired by her own photographs of locations that feature the mesmerizing and ever-changing play of light on clouds and water.

She first learned to paint in oils when she and Pat were stationed first in California and then in Germany during his time as a JAG officer in the U.S. Air Force. While there she had the opportunity to take classes from a popular German artist. Her love of art evolved into a lifelong hobby and now has now emerged as another career.

Judy’s career includes a time at The State Newspaper, The Post and Courier where she was Features Editor, and The Journal Scene, The Gazette and The Berkeley Independent, community newspapers at which she served as Executive Editor.

She is also the author of two novels, “Finding Jordan” and “The Diary” and three collections of her award winning newspaper columns, “Living with Wieners…and Guys, too,” “Living with Man children” and “Living with The Hubster.” Her column The Watts Line was launched in Lowcountry newspapers in 1989 and ran for three decades.

Judy and the Hubster, attorney Pat Watts, live with their two wiener dogs Sophie and Sadie. They enjoy spending time with family at their cabin on Lake Wateree. Their children, better known through her newspaper column as Surfer Dude and Manchild #2, are now grown. Dude (Sean) lives in Oregon with his wife, Maya, daughters Rook and Rowan; MC#2 (Paul), a merchant mariner, lives in Troy, New York with wife Kim and son Kallan.