Judith Belzer describes her work as follows: "The images in my paintings are collected from everyday observations made near my rural Connecticut home. I am aiming to evoke the experience of nature rather than any idea of it. In this I am taking my inspiration from Thoreau and Emerson who argued that the individual should strive for a direct, subjective perception of nature shorn of inherited ways of seeing. I am convinced that in the process of seeking a relationship with nature that leaves our conventional views, our irony and our polemics behind, we can learn not only to exist with some wisdom in our local landscapes but also in the world beyond our backyards."

Judith Belzer was born in Chicago in 1956. She received her B.A. from Barnard College, attended the New York Studio School and received a Norfolk Fellowship from Yale College. Her work has been the subject of several one-woman shows in Boston, Chicago and New York and she has exhibited in group exhibitions in New York, Boston and Santa Fe. Judith Belzer's work can be found in such public collections as Equitable Life Insurance, Reader's Digest, Lifetime Cable, and Spaulding Corporation.