Choral Mine Artwork

Text from the exhibiton at GPS, Glasgow. Johnson’s intricate and expansive oeuvre covers delicate pen drawings, detailed etchings and goes right on through to more expressive mixed media and painting on board. He leaves no stone un-turned in search of the perfect form for his expression. Through an intuitive exploration of form, colour and texture his work reflects upon on a library of field recordings, notes and drawings gathered over the past 12 months from in and around Glasgow. These have been collated into sound montages and sketchbooks, providing a framework from which to base a series of mixed media collages, paintings, steel plate etchings and aquatints as part of this show. Paper dyeing, paint-pouring and collage techniques are experimented with to incorporate a sense of chance into each piece. The suggestion of a narrative is presented through abstract interpretations of everyday observations - themes around community, storytelling and memory are present throughout the work and often metamorphose into new and exhilarating landscapes populated by allegorical scenes of symbols, shapes and mystical forms which we can choose to decipher or simply immerse ourselves in. It is both playful and carefully considered work, underpinned by an expressive visual language and a willingness to push the boundaries of the mediums in which the artist works.

Mixed Media:Oil on Acrylic

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:23.4 W x 33.1 H x 0 D in

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