Elizabeth Johns

My background is in graphic design, and in all my paintings a strong sense of design appears. Ideas are taken from philosophy, stories, legends, history, environment, landscape, weather. 
I am inspired by the Colour Field School and the way colour, space, and distorted perspective unite to form a distinctive view. Working in acrylics on canvas, I engage with the paint to create various effects of flow, flat blocks of colour and layered elements. By recently experimenting with livelier brushstrokes the image is transformed from the idea I envisioned into something quite intuitive and unexplained.

2005 - 2006 MArt, COFA, NSW
2002 - 2004 BFA, National Art School, Sydney, NSW
1980 Graphic Design & Advertising, AIP, Philadelphia,USA
1965 Graphic Design, East Sydney Tech., NSW

2016 Space Rearranged, Factory 49, Marrickville, NSW
2013 In Time and Space, Factory 49, Marrickville, NSW
2012 Four Years in Cape York, Factory 49, Marrickville, NSW
2011 Time to Land, School of Art, Cooktown Qld.