Judy Molyneux: Bolinas Seen

Judy Molyneux (1942–2025) painted Bolinas and its people for over five decades. Her extensive body of work, spanning a myriad of styles and vivid palettes, encapsulates a personal and ever-evolving vision of the landscape and community of Bolinas. As founder of the Bolinas Gallery, the longest continuously running gallery in West Marin, Molyneux thoughtfully created a venue for other artists to share their work, and often used the business to raise funds for international peace and environmental efforts in addition to local causes. She was a founding member of The Outsiders, a group of seven plein-air painters inspired by The Society of Six, a cohort of artists who painted outdoors and exhibited together in and around Oakland in the early 1900s. In the 1980s, Molyneux curated _Bay Area Seen,_ exhibitions of 100 regional artists at the Hall of Flowers in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Her work has been shown in galleries and museums from New York to California, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.