[5][6] Judith Rosanne Wood James was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1942, but grew up in Toronto and matriculated from Bishop Strachan School in 1961.
In the exhibition's press release Clute's paintings were described as having "mount[ed] campaigns against easy reading".
[11] For the next five decades, Clute continued to produce works in this style, participating in 37 painting exhibitions to date[12] and creating illustrations for a number of well-known science fiction authors and magazines.
[13] In Interzone #188, her artwork was displayed on the cover, and her life and work was discussed in an article entitled "Still Turning Motif's Upside Down" by Paul Brazier.
"[18] Later on in the book Candas Jane Dorsey comments that Clute "sees the world with that fresh, slightly sideways glance that imposes no filters, and draws no foregone conclusions.