Upcoming exhibition
Full Circle - Lisa Johnson
Westland Gallery, London
October 28th to Nov. 29th, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday Nov. 1st, 2025
Westland Gallery, London
October 28th to Nov. 29th, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday Nov. 1st, 2025
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"This year I was invited to return for a month-long artist residency at the Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland — this time in mid-winter. It was incredible to be able to experience this time of year, with snow against dark sculptural rocks, frozen waterfalls and crashing seas. Influenced by the stark and dramatic landscape along the East Coast Trail, I created a series of gestural paintings on canvas, using a minimalist palette, evoking the feeling of large charcoal drawings.I was driven to capture the monumental and overwhelming qualities of this transcendent place. In addition to this winter series, “Full Circle” will also include more colour-filled works from a spring and fall series of works, both from Newfoundland and other favourite locations in Canada." |
recent exhibitions:
Terra Nova
Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto
December 23 - January 24. 2024
lonsdalegallery.com/exhibitions/lisa-johnson-terra-nova/
Lisa Johnson, AOCA is a Canadian painter, living just north of Toronto. Johnson graduated with honours from the Ontario College of Art, where she also won the prestigious Mrs. W.O. Forsythe Award for 4th year women painters in 1996. Her work is shown by galleries across Canada, including Lonsdale Gallery in Toronto; Westland Gallery in London, James Baird Gallery in Newfoundland and Soul Gallery in Winnipeg, among others. Her works can be found in numerous private and corporate collections in U.S.A., Europe and Canada.
Lisa Johnson's paintings inquire into her experience of landscape and the climate crisis that threaten it. Johnson builds upon inspiration from on-location studies, and develops large studio works, weaving geological, corporeal, and abstract sensibilities through layers of atmospheric grounds and gestural mark-making. Seeking to communicate the emotional experience of a place, Lisa Johnson’s work reveals an ongoing dialogue between drawing and painting; abstraction and representation. Through this exploration, she creates theatrical worlds of wilderness landscape -- passionate dramas expressed with the visceral physicality of line and paint in a gestural dance.
"She is a modern romantic poised halfway between the world of purely painterly dreams and visions of grand mysterious Canadian places." --Robert Kameczura, Chicago Big Shoulder's Magazine
Lisa Johnson's paintings inquire into her experience of landscape and the climate crisis that threaten it. Johnson builds upon inspiration from on-location studies, and develops large studio works, weaving geological, corporeal, and abstract sensibilities through layers of atmospheric grounds and gestural mark-making. Seeking to communicate the emotional experience of a place, Lisa Johnson’s work reveals an ongoing dialogue between drawing and painting; abstraction and representation. Through this exploration, she creates theatrical worlds of wilderness landscape -- passionate dramas expressed with the visceral physicality of line and paint in a gestural dance.
"She is a modern romantic poised halfway between the world of purely painterly dreams and visions of grand mysterious Canadian places." --Robert Kameczura, Chicago Big Shoulder's Magazine