Cheryl Johnson
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BEAUTY IS WHEN IT FEELS EFFORTLESS.
Reminder to self: Have no fear and paint with passion.ARTIST STATEMENT
“My philosophy is a very simple one: I believe in creativity, imagination, and self-expression. I am a painter. I think art can have something important to say about the human condition. At its best, and in any era, great painting is exciting. It can take us somewhere we remember or haven’t been before, provoking us into new areas of thought and feeling. I wish to ignite a sense of joy. I create paintings that reflect the people and moments that touch my life. I allow imagination and emotion to commingle into memorable creations. My works are a collection of memories, philosophies, and experiences. I hope to enliven a sense of connection and optimism and strive to create beauty and a moment’s pleasure.
Art leads to compassion and sensitivity and the world needs that.
Cheryl Johnson is an American painter known for her gestural, abstracted paintings that evoke natural forms. While she works from her impressions of the landscape, she also draws upon major inspiration from artists—such as works by Joan Mitchel, De Kooning and Frankenthaler—to define her compositions.
CURIOUS
Even now, Cheryl, as so many dreams of yours are in the midst of coming true, know that I have dreamed even BIGGER and BETTER for you than you can now comprehend.
Best known for her expressive large abstract paintings composed of vivid colors, she forms her compositions through heavy, impasto marks and the use of thick paints creating textured surfaces.
A fetished appreciation of paint and all the spectacular things you can do with a brush. INDULGING IN THE PROCESS. Exploring the illusions of space. A painting is really a response to the first mark you make on the canvas and then taking that mark for a walk.
Cheryl Johnson is a painter whose artistic talents were recognized and encouraged from a very young age where she grew up in the Northwest in the mountains of Idaho, only a stone throw from Canada. Her passion for art launched her on a lifelong journey to become a professional painter and took her from a childhood in the mountains of Idaho... through formal fine art training in Oklahoma.
Profoundly affected by the Northwest and Canadian Rocky Mountains where she grew up, Cheryl Johnson paints abstract landscapes in colorful combinations of paint that are by turns harmonious and dissonant.
PRINTS
I have moments where I am drawn to faces and figurative studies and am enamored by the beauty and intrigue of the face.
SEE NO EVIL
United States
Painting
Size: 18 H x 24 W x 0.1 in
Mon Amie (My Friend) Painting by Cheryl Johnson
Original SOLD Purchase Prints
Mon Amie (My Friend)
United States
While colors, light, weather and atmosphere act as the impetus in my work, the painting themselves evolve in recalling the memory of a place and continual moments of discovery. Early influences in painting were Monet and JMW Turner.
Experiments in impressionistic landscape painting eventually led to a language of abstraction related more to the female abstract expressionists, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler. My goal is to keep the elements universal and invite the viewer to experience it on an emotional levels as well as visually. I am honored that my work is collected by private individuals and is found in public collections worldwide.
"Changing the world one great idea at a time."
"I am an artist painting in the language of abstraction. I see the opportunity to make something amazing. My work continually evolves and changes as I explore emotion and the idea of place. The verdant forests of North Carolina, the translucent skies of Hawaii, the sea surrounding the island of Kauai, the warmth of Fall in the Northwest, the power of Glacier National Park are all subjects explored in my work.
Series continues to examine secret forests as I am inspired by the beauty of nature: landscape, changing seasons, and the passing of time.
Box Paintings Series
TOUCH ME-Texture
"I find real beauty in the passing of time. All things change and color with each season.
For me this is a constant source of fascination."
The voice that Cheryl Johnson seeks to capture and expresses in her images is the voice of nature that slowly but surely imposes change on all matter.
The broad, gestural marks and tactile surface of Cheryl Johnson's oil paintings are as bold as her gregarious color palette.
Hues blend and are subtle, suggesting her confident use of paint. Works are impactful exposing densely saturated color. Her oil paintings are worked with many layers and hues of paint, each adding and at times glazes appear barely distinguishable from the other, yet contributing to an overall depth and complexity.
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Cheryl Johnsons's paintings are built up in many layers which are enhanced or scraped off as they are being applied. Lines, shapes, colors and marks evolve as the painting develops to multiple layers. The final outcome is similar to how we experience life itself. Unfolding. Developing. Evolving.
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It's like you're a fabulously complicated jigsaw puzzle piece, Cheryl, with stunning colors, wildly serrated edges, oceans of emotion, mountains of possibilities, worlds of talent, and complex energies...
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