Kerry Johns
all the wild
ephemera
Kerry Johns
all the wild ephemera
Born in Brisbane Australia in 1947, Kerry Johns gained a Secondary Art Teaching Diploma in 1966 and after two years teaching art at secondary schools in Queensland moved to Sydney to two year study tour of painting in European galleries and museums.
Kerry Johns has held twelve solo exhibitions, and taken part in numerous group, invitation and exhibitions at commercial and public galleries throughout Australia. The most recent include a major solo show of landscape paintings entitled Blue Air-Ted Earth at Broken Hill city Art Center, Western Australia, and Memory and Mountains a solo exhibition defining her relationship to the Blue Mountains environment at Penrith Regional Gallery New South Wales.
Jamison and the world
43.3"x35.4" acrylic on canvas
$ 5,200 © 2001 K.Johns
a whole unfolding
35"x41" acrylic on canvas
$ 5,200 © 2001 K.Johns
Kerry Johns is a professional painter living with her family in the Blue Mountains, NSW Australia. She conducts adult education classes and workshops in painting and drawing in her Katoomba studio.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My recent work has been almost exclusively with the landscape of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. I have tried to visually define and refine my relationship with this environment, a relationship shaped through long knowledge and a deep feeling for it as "home"
My approach stems from a desire for a fresh way of relating to the living environment and an awareness of it as a vigorous and autonomous entity in itself. In finding ways of signifying connection to landscape, I use the conventional position of " onlooker" with the artist/viewer "here" and the landscape "out there." As well as taking perspectives which allow greater psychological immersion in the landscape.
momentary translation
(earth red)
30"x 35" acrylic on canvas
$ 4,600 © 2001 K.Johns
momentary translation
(pink)
35"x 41" acrylic on canvas
$ 5,200 © 2001 K.Johns
rock face translation
(pink)
35"x 43" acrylic on canvas
$ 5,400 © 2001 K.Johns
The imagery is superimposed and layered many times as I seek the necessary form of the perceptual filtered through the subjective. In the abstract "translation" series I have tried to " ask the subject what needs to be said", allowing the energy of the subject to leave its traces as a build up of linear markings. My recurring theme is relationship, between inner and outer realities, between humans and out environment, believing that we need to find ways to experience and interpret out interrelationship with our environment if we are to live in harmony with it.
For more information about the artist and her work please visit: www.kerryjohns.com
KERRY JOHNS ONE ARTIST SHOW
at
the Ezair Gallery:
from
Oct 1 - Oct 31, 2004
with
the RECEPTION:
October 7, 2004
6 PM - 8 PM
