Alumnae Artists

Title: Oval Mirror Date: 2020

Medium: acrylic on canvas Dimensions: 70 cm x 80 cm Collection category: painting Purchased by Brisbane Girls Grammar School for the School Fine Arts Collection 2022 Kerry Johns is an alumna of Brisbane Girls Grammar School (1961 to 1964). She grew up in South East Queensland and left Queensland as a young woman. She has lived much of her life in the Blue Mountains and in coastal New South Wales. After graduating as an Art teacher, Kerry studied painting in Sydney at the John Ogburn Studio for two years. She subsequently undertook an extensive study tour of European galleries and museums, including painting sojourns in Paris and the south of France. Since her first solo exhibition in 1979, she has exhibited consistently in numerous solo and group shows in commercial galleries. Kerry is recognised as an established Australian Landscape painter with a long history of finalist prize exhibitions, winning several Australian Art Awards. Her work is held in a number of Australian Public Collections For many years, her subject matter has been landscape and abstraction. The shaping of visual form remains an imperative in her work. ‘ My en-plein-air painting most often draws on familiar landscape imagery, the observation of natural assemblages of trees in the bush or in front of water. ‘ I like a painting to appear at first look, then shift focus as the observer explores the canvas. I enjoy observation as both perception and impression, lately finding pleasure in using greater naturalism, ’ Kerry Johns, 2021.

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