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Following the death of her husband in 1975, Juda returned to her early interest in painting and in the late 1980s took a small studio in Fulham Road, London where she painted and evolved her work in collage. She produced several series of collage works based on her love of the paintings of Henri
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British Fortnights at the American department stores Lord and Taylor and Neiman Marcus in an effort to promote British brands and goods. Juda was initially approached to create a British Fortnight at
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would visit Juda at her home to teach her photography. Soon after, Juda did a stint as a "dark room boy" at the
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Archive at the V&A Museum which led to negatives being loaned by the V&A Museum and by the
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Further, famous personalities of the time such as Margot Fonteyn, Richard Burton, Anthony Armstrong-Jones, and Peter Ustinov; and friends like Norman Parkinson, Mark Boxer, and Madge Garland were all affectionately portrayed.
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