Judith Seay was born in Dallas. She received her fine arts degree from SMU. Jerry Bywaters, one of the Dallas Nine, and some of the other professors influenced the Dallas Museum of Art and the Mid Century contemporary art scene in Dallas. Judith broadened her artistic horizon by studying at UT and UNT her painting teachers at SMU were DeForest Judd and Stephen Wilder She has created her own style in which you may see influences of the Dallas Regionalists. She has brought that artistic fervor into the 21st century with adventurous paths in her paintings.