Cheryl Johnson
Mixed Media
From the outset, Cheryl Johnson’s paintings continually explore medium and method. Enamored by the Abstract Expressionists Cheryl loves painting for the pleasure of painting. Her work is eclectic and inspired. She is an artist who derives ideas, style, and taste from a broad and diverse range of sources.
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Happiness Series
Cheryl Johnson reveals the boundless possibilities of painting, driven by her passion for layers and aided by a gestural mark-making style that truly sets her work apart. The artist's energetic canvases undergo an alchemical transformation as a result of her transparent glazes adding veiled colors as well as the uncontrollably organic interactions between the oil and resin she often chooses to pour a propriety mixture she has refined through years of experimentation directly onto the canvas surface.
Cheryl starts by pouring this unique oil paint and medium combination over her substrate, allowing the colors to pool, splash, and stretch. She then rearranges her supports and adds more layers of paint, further altering her surfaces with brushes, rags, her hands or squeegee tools, in a method that is simultaneously revelatory and intuitive.
Happiness 1
United States
Mixed Media Painting on Canvas
Size: 36H x 48 W x 0.75 in
Ships in a cardboard box
$1,620
Happiness 2
United States
Mixed Media Painting on Canvas
Size: 36 H x 48 W x 0.75 in
Ships in a box
$1,670
Fall Colors Emerging
United States
Oil Painting on Canvas
Size: 40 H x 30 W x 1.5 in
Ships in a cardboard box
$1,870Add to Cart
Joy Blue Moments
United States
Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Size: 24 H x 18 W x 1.5 in
Ships in a cardboard box
$810Add to Cart
"In the beginning stage, the process is improvisational; a lot of serendipity occurs combined with planned value changes develop as I work with different colors and brushes. I slowly allow the painting to take shape on its own. The painting process is about finding the finished piece, even though there are moments when it seems almost visible to me."
— Cheryl Johnson
Fall Feelings
24"x24" Mixed Media/Oil on substrate of foam board.
Fall Feelings
$710
United States
Painting
Size: 24 H x 24 W x 0.8 in
Ships in a cardboard box
Oil Paintings on Canvas
"Every movement has its touch points for me, and artists that I return to time and time again are Frankenthaler, Mitchell, Twombly, Bonnard, Watteau and Polke. I look up to Joan Mitchell more than anyone else right now, and although my approach at times is very different from hers, her use of paint as a medium, her fascination with pushing the boundaries of materiality, and her interest in space and place are all significant influences.
“Mitchells paintings often fill the space and are very large, but close to their heart there is a pause, a rest, a feeling that pulls you right in and that is what I want to do.”
— Cheryl Johnson
Piano Inspiration Orange
OIL PAINTINGS ME Collection
MIXED MEDIA Drip Series
"Have faith in the mark. Make a flirtatious mark by rubbing and brushing against the surface using your entire body to guide you is daring. Painting can be easily interpreted as mystery, with a simple flick of the wrist, the animal-hair-tipped brush in your hand exposes a universe of relative marks that span thousands of years of emotions."
— Cheryl Johnson
SEE NO EVIL
PROJECT BY CHERYL JOHNSON
See No Evil is a watercolor painting of three faces, see, hear, speak. I have always been fond of the tale of the three wise monkeys. Three wise monkeys. ... The three monkeys are Mizaru, covering his eyes, who sees no evil; Kikazaru, covering his ears, who hears no evil; and Iwazaru, covering his mouth, who speaks no evil. This inspired me. Perhaps my next piece will be the fourth axiom. Sometimes there is a fourth monkey depicted, Shizaru, who symbolizes the principle of "do no evil".
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“I’m interested in a painting practice being a, shifting, unnamable thing guided by your emotions and passion to create.
—Cheryl Johnson
