Trudy Good was surrounded by artists growing up; her grandfather was a respected wildlife painter in South Africa and her father was a landscape artist in his free time. Good grew up with a “creative mind” and expressed herself through different media like drawing and poetry. Good had no formal training besides a college foundation course, which only served to disillusion her from the art world. Good believed that she could not make a living creating art, so instead she found a “proper job,” but never felt truly fulfilled. Good returned to her artistic roots when she decided to take a life drawing class. Feeling completely invigorated, Good spent the next few years cultivating her talent and learning the trade.

Good’s primary medium is charcoal and pastel; she loves the immediacy of working directly with her hands with no intervening brush. Good works instinctively, with a heavy focus on lighting and the female form. With pieces that capture the beauty of movement, particularly in her “Ballroom Series,” Good asserts that her pieces are “never narratives; merely moments.”