Lyons artist
honored

Lake Country Framing in Geneva has selected Judi Palermo Shumway as Artist of the Month.

She is a pen and ink artist, a member of the Wayne County Council for the Arts. The native of Newark majored in art in high school and college. She always had an interest in drawing and her high school art teacher, Richard Hawver, influenced her by sharing his love of artists such as Andrew Wyeth and Eric Sloane.

Shumway's first sketches were of barns and buildings, and many of her pen and ink drawings are of the same. Currently much of her work is house portraits.

Pictured are Gary and Judi Shumway.

In 1984-85, she was commissioned by Hobart and William Smith Colleges to draw the covers for the school newsletter, The Pulteney Street Survey. She has freelanced for BOCES, Clifton Springs Country Club, Newark Country Club, Lyons Community Center, Ontario National Bank and others.

She was hired by Hobart and William Smith Colleges to do a pen and ink of the colleges' new library dedicated to L. Thomas Melly, former President of the Board of Directors.

Besides pen and ink medium, she paints folk art Santas in both wood and in watercolor.

Gary and Judi live in Lyons with her son, Matthew Witt, and stepchildren, Sara and Kagney Shumway. She is the daughter of Frank and Betty Palermo of Moore Street, Newark.

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