Elizabeth Johnson

While I have had different careers, I have always painted. Today, I paint full time from the October to May. In the summer, I run a wood-fired pizzeria with my kids. While I prefer to paint on location, I have a studio in my boathouse on Shoe Lake where I also paint.

My favourite medium is oil paint. Oil paint is subtle and soft, has texture and dries slowly so I can make interesting edges between the shapes. My favourite subjects are simple arrangements of dark, medium and light shapes in landscape and interiors: the forest, a village, a dark stream in the snow. My brushwork is loose. I often paint with a kitchen spatula, so I can’t get lost in detail.

My art education includes courses at various universities, and workshops, but the best education is the work on the ground, painting every day, and reading books on oil painting.

I have a major exhibition every spring at my gallery in Dorset. This year, 2024, it is on April 14. I have had many solo shows in Bracebridge at the Chapel Gallery, in Toronto at Hotel Ocho, in Haliburton at Rail’s End Gallery., in Guelph at the University Faculty Club and in Huntsville at Partner’s Hall. I am the artist in residence at Arowhon Pines one day a week in the summer. My work has been sold nationally and internationally.

To see more of my work, please visit my website; www.elizabethjohnson.ca
Contact number: 705 380 1689.