Fine Art Paintings
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Plein Air Landscape Paintings - painted on location.
Painter's Story
Chris Johnson travels the world to exotic places, painting the scenes. Her style has been said to be Primitive and her paintings carry a Historical value as they record the details at the time the painting was painted. The Media is both acrylics and oils. She paints on location recording the mood and atmosphere of the day and captures a feeling associated with the location.
This picture of Chris Johnson on location in Sedona, Arizona was taken by a photography student also enjoying the magnificent view. Her paintings include scenes from the mystical Mayan Ruins of Mexico, the lush green landscape of the Virgin Islands, mountain and desert scenes from Arizona, and cityscapes from Austin, Texas. She also paints still lifes and modern art.
Austin Texas Cityscapes
Views from Auditorium shores and the Waking Bridge
St. Croix USVI Island views
The lush green landscape of the Virgin Islands
Arizona and Mountains scenes
Mountain and desert scenes from Arizona
Painting on Location - Plein Air
Painting Collection by Artist Chris Johnson
New Paintings from the Point Udal East End, St. Croix USVI
Retrospective of her works over three decades showcases the artist's irrefutable need to paint.
Art Showing Retrospective
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While Ms. Johnson's work is uncannily accurate in its portrayal of hills, roads and buildings, it is also highly interpretive and a bit whimsical, almost compulsive in its detail. Horizons sometimes slope or curve, seemingly bulging to accommodate the large amount of information the painter has chosen to include in her view.
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Compositions are crowded with specifics of buildings, roads, trees and hills, compacting 180 degree views into a 36 inch wide canvas. The scenes are oddly unpopulated, and the artist places herself inside the scene as it's sole occupant,
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This lends the viewer a chance to experience something beyond a familiar storybook view of the Buccaneer Hotel or Cane Bay; a sense of the artist's own experience is also captured. Gazing on one of these bright, childlike canvasses elicits thoughts of meditative days spent on ai sunny hilltop, dipping a brush into a palette of bright blues and greens, and taking the time to really LOOK.
