Judith Toy began painting watercolors with pen & ink at the age of 74, after five years of widowhood following a happy marriage to jazz musician and poet, R. Philip Toy. In Black Mountain, NC, together they ran a Zen Center full time, and led a poetry workshop for 25 years in Pennsylvania. She has moved from her mountain town of Black Mountain to an eco community in East Tennessee --not a hippy commune she points out --where she has renovated a hundred-year-old farmhouse on two and a half acres of rolling, mountainous countryside in the most rural county of Tennessee. She is...more
