Painter, draughtsman and teacher, also known as Judith Linnell, who exploited the vibrancy, luminosity and fluidity of watercolour to create distinctive flower, still life and landscape pictures. She was brought up in Knighton, Radnorshire, and graduated in fine art at Leeds University with Quentin Bell and Lawrence Gowing, 1966–70, with a postgraduate art education certificate in 1971. After teaching advanced English and art history in Rome and Cambridge, Linnell settled in St Albans, Hertfordshire, where she began teaching watercolour and drawing at Oaklands College of Further Education in 1983, in 1990 starting her own watercolour workshops and in 1996 becoming tutor for painting holidays in Corsica and Crete. Awards included Hertfordshire Open Exhibition, commended, 1991; Faber Castell drawing prize, 1992, and Buzzacott Award, 2001.