Judith Ann Barton was born in West London and was educated at Ashford (Middlesex) Grammer School. Inspired from early childhood by her mother Roberta, Judith was encouraged in all aspects of the arts. She attended Twickenham Art School before joining a group of portrait painters from London. They worked together successfully for almost a decade on commissioned and exhibition work both in England and abroad.

Judith won her first exhibition acclaim at 18 by winning the Havant Art Award for portraiture, the picture was entitled The Toy Maker. It was so well received that it made the headlines in the local newspaper.

Since then Judith has encompassed the arts as a whole, including the teaching of painting, drama and the speaking of verse and prose, for which she and her pupils have won numerous prizes and awards whilst teaching at Bemridge Public School on the Isle of Wight (founded by John Ruskin to encourage artistic creativity). Judiths students gained great results, many of them inspired to embrace the arts for their future careers.

Art awards include the Lucas Award for Portraiture, on two occassions the Isle of Wight Art Society Peoples Choice Award. At the Mall Galleries London the Society of Women Artists President and Vice Presidents Choice Award for the best art work in the Exhibition, the SWA Peoples Choice Award (this award is from those who view the exhibition this was won twice), the Daler Rowney Prize, the Windsor and Newton Choice Award. The 01784art.com Award for the most original painting in the exhibition, this was for her inspirational body of work in the Once Upon a Time Series, the picture was entitled Old Mrs Little and Jimmy.

Judith exhibits regularly at the Mall Galleries and has hung with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Society of Women Artists, the Not the Turner Prize sponsered by the Daily Mail, and the first of the groundbreaking Threadneedle Figurative Prize Exhibitions for which she had two paintings selected out of just 61 artists from a submission of over 2800 works.