Alberta
artist and educator, Gregg Johnson has long been a strong supporter of
the visual arts in the Edmonton region. A graduate of the
University of Alberta with degrees in English and Art Education, Johnson
has been an art teacher with the Public School Board and a practicing
artist for more than a quarter of a century.
Over the past several
years he has traveled the high roads and the back roads of the west
painting the indigenous prairie architecture and the spectacular
landscape with his dramatic and expressive palette. His love of
hiking and backpacking regularly takes him into the high country to
photograph and paint the many moods and grandeur of the mountains.
Painting landscapes is one thing, but capturing authentic locations and
rendering them not only faithfully but also creatively remain the
constant goal of this busy artist.
A signature member of
the Federation of Canadian Artists, Johnson took early retirement in
1994 to pursue his painting career full time. Accolades have been
the order of the day, with successful solo exhibitions in Canmore,
Jasper and Edmonton. Gregg Johnson’s unique and powerful
watercolours have found a strong following in the West, and his works
are now hanging in private and corporate art collections in this country
and abroad. A popular teaching artist, he is much in demand for
instruction, demonstrations, commissions and workshops. Twice
yearly during the last weeks of May and September he runs a mountain
watercolour workshop on the banks of the Athabasca River in Jasper at
the Tekarra Lodge.
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