Cheryl Johnson
Get to know Cheryl Johnson a skilled artist creating for over 40 years sharing multiple styles and emotions. Co-owner of Johnson Wildman Contemporary Art Gallery and Johnson Wildman Art Buying Portal
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Cheryl Johnson
Cheryl Johnson
North Carolina- based studio painter Cheryl Johnson works with many media including oil, acrylic, latex, silicone encaustic, using silicone to build texture and beeswax and resin to convey elaborate depictions. Utilizing tools designed for ceramists, Johnson carves, fills, layers, and fuses the wax, creating areas to be filled with pigment. Her paintings and landscape abstracts evoke a sense of wonder, guiding the eye through geometrically complex landscapes teeming with rich detail.
“I feel a personal connection to the work in front of me and I can look back at what I’ve accomplished while planning my next step for tomorrow. It’s a clear path that is soothing and I hope my paintings project my celebration of life as I pursue my passion and have more joy every day.” – Cheryl Johnson
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"We are big on mixing styles, especially with art," Cheryl Johnson admits.
Good interior design comes from bringing together furniture, art, and personal items that have meaning. We love not only stunning art but beautiful flowers, and accessories. Our goal is to be continually creating beautiful art for ourselves and others."
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Fascinated by the relationship between a painting’s formal composition and its psychological effect, Cheryl slips seamlessly between the real and the imagined, developing visual moments that convey the poignant and strange nature of memories, personal loss, and the passage of time.
About This Work
About This Work
Artist: Cheryl Johnson Title: EVERYWHERE Size: 36"x36" x.5" Substrate: Canvas Medium: Oil Style: Abstract Expressionism Keywords: Turquoise, orange, pink, teal, blue, white, black, green, yellow, wall decor, interior design, Abstract expressionism Description Fantasy Exploring dreams and imagination. A fantasy is something you imagine, In a fantasy world, you're not worrying much about reality — pleasant, maybe, but not very practical. Fantasy is dreams and imagination but so fun to explore. After mixing, blending, scraping, brushing, and painting for 30+ years, I know who I am and what I can do. I trust the process, and experimentation, and perhaps, change is a big part of it, so I like being unscripted and going with the flow of the unplanned. And yet some projects require learned lessons, learned skills, planning, and preparation. The variety of materials I have available to put on my surfaces is so exciting, however, in this painting, I chose only oil. It has taken many months to dry and the texture is thick and painterly. I enjoy developing a variety of styles, techniques and layers. When it all comes together it is more than a “Fantasy.” It becomes a real-world to explore. “Make it beautiful and cherish the moment.” Cheryl Johnson
"It is curiosity and wonder which invites me to explore a moments pleasure, memory and emotions, finding a sensual language in the colors, lights, and shadows of paint." - Cheryl Johnson
PAINTINGS THAT EXPLORE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN REALISM AND ABSTRACTION, BALANCING BOLD GESTURAL ART WITH SENSITIVE EXPRESSION
PAINTINGS THAT EXPLORE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN REALISM AND ABSTRACTION, BALANCING BOLD GESTURAL ART WITH SENSITIVE EXPRESSION
The artwork of Cheryl Johnson invites a different kind of looking. Her work is honed from hours of study, exploration, and knowledge of applying color, lines, strokes, combined with traces, of memory. Her brushwork is applied with confidence using a variety of media. The images of her native Idaho state wilderness are revealed through her thoughtful and time-involved technique, referencing places and faces remembered. Cheryl creates commanding, gestural works that explore emotional and psychological shifts and ideas around beauty, joy, longing, desire, and the unknown.
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.”
CARL JUNG
Cheryl Johnson is a Charlotte, NC- based painter. she holds a master's degree from Oklahoma State University and undergraduate degrees from the school of fine arts, Tulsa, and Oral Roberts Universities. Her lush abstract drawings and paintings are known for their rich color and are inspired by people, places, experiences, and travels.
Johnson's work is characterized by heavily impastoed surfaces and a highly personal use of color. she often explores color trends and how they reflect social constructs such as anxiety, freedom, and power. for example, colors prominent in contemporary society act as barometers of the social climate. likewise, colors in the natural world are barometers of environmental stress and change in the climate. sometimes these worlds connect.
My highest goal is to convey the joy, passion and vibrancy within us.
My highest goal is to convey the joy, passion and vibrancy within us.
To bring light, love, warmth and liveliness to the world and inspire others to embrace who they are.
To bring light, love, warmth and liveliness to the world and inspire others to embrace who they are.
Cheryl Johnson has spent 30 years developing the unique techniques of her Abstract Expressionist Style and Impressionism Landscapes, which involve expressive brush strokes and the impasto application of paint. Unlike traditional oil painters, Johnson does not build up the painting layer by layer; instead, she lays in a blend usually burnt umber background, and then layers her paint strokes side by side blending and overlapping, and each stroke builds. The clean brush strokes often create a mosaic or stained-glass appearance to her landscape paintings, while also conveying a sense of lyricism, movement, and spontaneity. She often uses a limited palette of only five to seven pigments to create vivid, un-muddied colors that compliment her imagination.
Monet and Van Gogh began the impressionist and post-impressionist movements. The goal of each painting is to capture light and the fleeting and momentary light seen in Plein air or out of doors, especially during early dawn and sunset. Like other impressionist painters, Johnson and Wildmans's work appears more abstract when viewed up close and "becomes clear or goes into focus" when seen from a few feet away.
JW Abstract works are influenced by their favorite artists. Together, they create emotionally charged abstract expressionist paintings influenced by the gestural tradition of painters such as Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Helen Frankenthaler, William de Kooning, and Gerhard Richter. Their style of painting is unique layered and abstracted colors. This style also was influenced by Japanese landscapes from artist Zao Wou-Ki who was a Chinese-French painter.
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