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About d’Elaine Johnson |
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d’Elaine Johnson is a full-time artist based in Edmonds, Washington. Hundreds of her works have been collected throughout the world. She has won many awards and honors; has been listed in university, national, and the world’s who’s who of art. She has exhibited at innumerable one-person and juried exhibitions. She is a painter, writer, juror, lecturer, violinist, and philanthropist. d’Elaine Johnson is a woman of our times and, through her art, she is a creative historian of life.
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d'Elaine
Johnson (Edmonds) was raised in Auburn, Washington, received a BA in Art
Education from Central Washington University and an MFA from the University of
Washington. She served for twenty-four years as a Visual Arts Instructor in Seattle.
Her inspiration is a collection of her life's history: an extension of being
raised in a seaport state with a culturally diverse population, and the
interplay of diverse belief systems.
During her distinguished career, she has exhibited more than 636 times around the globe - from the Pacific Northwest's Henry Art Gallery and Frye and Seattle Art Museums to various prestigious exhibitions in New York, Washington, D.C. Paris, France, and the United Arab Emirates. More than half of her exhibits have been one-person, feature exhibits. She is a many-time recipient of Awards, recognitions and scholarships, and is listed in university, regional, national, and international Who’s Who honorariums. These paintings focus on the principals of water, the giver of life to our universe and the connector of all land masses into one whole world. They are concerned with the cycles of fortune, wheels of justice, departures or banishments and returns, regeneration and rebirth. She comments, "My art form ties all life on this planet together in a universal context through the seas, where life began and today connects all as one. " The paintings are two dimensional and decorative. Simulating the effect of objects seen through a liquid medium, her paintings feature many layers of acrylic washes built up within a highly transparent surface created by stretching rice papers over boards. d'Elaine's work relates directly to myths of the sea through symbolic imagery. Each piece is coupled with a citation that reveals the particular myth upon which the work is based. The myth series started in 1971 and number over seven-hundred seventy-five to date. Her next objective is to put her research and creations into book form.
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