Oils
Cheryl Johnson draws upon her environment, memories and also her photography for inspiration in creating these beautiful abstract landscapes.
Cheryl Johnson paints chromatically intense oil paintings as she remembers color and light that create lyrical compositions of abstract secret forest landscapes. Her paintings often reflect a painterly technique and a sensitive approach to color, light, and gesture. She creates space and bands of color that tilt and turn that result into biomorphic forms of color.
SF_Butterfly Footprints
40"x30"x1.75
Oil on Canvas
Bright colored oil on canvas. Thick impasto, palette knife. After I completed this work it was outside drying and a butterfly landed on it. thus the name.
SF_September Song
40"x30"x1.5
Oil on Canvas.
This piece is called September Song as it was completed on the last day of September 2016 when the fall air was changing to cooler days. Look at abstract art in the same way that you would listen to a symphony, let the color wash over you. Let your eyes wander over the painting the way the notes of a symphony wash over your soul and emotions. Let your eyes play with the painting, slipping around corners, following the twirls, twists and turns, dipping in and out of the surface. Let your eyes dance around the piece.
SF_October Opening
Oil on Canvas 24" x 24" x 1.75
When Fall arrives the colors are muted yet vibrant. The feelings of fall surround you with joy. Muted Moments are created as Marc Chagall said: "All colors are the friends of their neighbors and lovers of their opposites. Oil, palette knife and brush.
SF_Spring Forward
Mixed Media on Paper
Size: 17.4 H x 25 W x 0 in
Painting: Acrylic, Latex and Oil on Paper.
When nature signals you that spring is on the way you are inspired to paint with colors and show nature’s tapestry of beauty. Springing forward in time language was created to give us more hours of sunlight to enjoy. I love Spring.
Painted on Stone Paper, a “Tree-Free” product, that does not require water or use of fossil fuel as part of production.
Keywords: pink, blue, spring, turquoise, yellow, landscape
SF_Overjoyed_Dyptych
The overall size of the combined piece would be 20" wide and 12" Height. Individual paintings are 10"x12".
When you take a color tone, and you mix it with white or grey, it dulls it down to make the color less bright or in other words it makes it muted or reduces vibrancy.
This painting is created with layers of muted colors. This is a Diptych or two paintings designed to hang together or adjacent.
Secret Forests
"Great art picks up where nature ends."
Marc Chagall
SF_ Muted Moments (SOLD)
There are times when a painting comes together and fills you with fall feelings. Deeply embedded vivid colors are softened with muted tones and highlighted with multiple monochromatic colors that reveal the tints, tones, and shades of a single hue.
Mixed media, acrylics, oils
38 × 28 × 0.3 in
Abstract Expressionist Landscape. Mixed Media, Oil and Acrylic on Terra Skin Stone Paper. Eye catching colors of Summer is composed of vivid hues. This composition reveals layers of palette knife color and heavy brush strokes. Using impasto marks colors intersect in a staccato rhythm. Most importantly TerraSkin paper is made from stone and the harvesting of trees is unnecessary, thereby safeguarding the natural environment’s beauty and biodiversity for all living beings.
SOLD
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SF-Fall in the Carolinas
United States
Rainbow Waterfall SOLD
Title: Master
Creator: Cheryljohnsonartist.com
Date Created: 2017
Physical Dimensions: w28 x h38d1.25 in
Artist Quote: Colors cascading.
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil
Substrate: Stone Paper
Rights: © Cheryl Johnson
NU: 17006
Price: $1600 (Includes Shipping)
Title: Light Coming SOLD
Creator: Cheryljohnsonartist.com
Date Created: 2017
Physical Dimensions: w30 x h24 d1.25 in
Artist Quote: Move to the light.
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil
Substrate: Canvas
Rights: © Cheryl Johnson
NU: 17005
Price: $1400 (Includes Shipping)
Spirit Dancer SOLD
Title: Spirit Dancer
Creator: Cheryljohnsonartist.com
Date Created: 2017
Physical Dimensions: w30 x h40 d1.25 in
Artist Quote: Attempt what is not certain.
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil
Rights: © Cheryl Johnson
NU: 17007
Price: $2350
Fantasy SOLD
Title: Spirit Dancer
Creator: Cheryljohnsonartist.com
Date Created: 2017
Physical Dimensions: w30 x h40 d1.25 in
Artist Quote: Attempt what is not certain.
Type: Painting
Medium: Oil
Rights: © Cheryl Johnson
NU: 17011
Price: $2350