Brent Johnson

Born in Usk, S.Wales, I spent childhood drawing and for a few years I taught Art & Design, Craft & Technology until fate took me to London to work as a sculptor/model maker. Only on returning to my birthplace of Usk, aged 50 (exactly midlife) have I experienced a symbolic rebirth. Waiting for retirement to resume paintingmay be too late, so in 2005 I became a very young artist. During my 22year break away from home I worked behind the scenes on all sorts of artefacts; for TV;theme parks;West End plays some for display in Tate Modern for Gavin Turk, Sam Taylor-Wood;and managed the production of the Heathrow roundabout Concorde for Saatchi....Which is all very nice but now I'm doing it for me, interpretting my farmyard surroundings the way I see them. City life has a buzz but trees, fields, clouds and animals are what do it for me!My inspiration comes from an orphaned calf, an 82yr old farmer, a blind sheep and so on; we're all just trying to get by.

Caerleon College; Design and Technology 1973-76School of life 1977-2005Started painting in earnest 2005