About the Artist
Her paintings include scenes from the mystical Mayan Ruins of Mexico, the lush green landscape of the Virgin Islands, mountain and desert scenes from Arizona, and cityscapes from Austin, Texas.
Chris Johnson travels the world to exotic places, painting the scenes.
Her style has been said to be Primitive and her paintings carry a Historical value as they record the details at the time the painting was painted.
The Media is both acrylics and oils.
She paints on location recording the mood and atmosphere of the day and captures a feeling associated with the location.
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My work has been coined as “Primitive” by dealers from the Virgin Islands and New York. I paint from what I see and attempt to match the colors exactly, which can appear unbelievable to some. Some say this gives the pictures a storybook effect.
I see them as a window into a time and place in the real world. I believe that my painting take on a historical value as they record “the way things were” and as the times and the scenes change they hold this record of the past.
I have captured many fine details, as in my Austin scenes, which seem to “date” the paintings. Signs, buildings and streets change and soon they recall a history of times and places.
My 3 Austin scenes record the old First Street bridge. My St. Croix Scene is a series of 6 paintings that all connect to form a 360 degrees circle of the view from atop a mountain on the east end of the island.
This forms a sequence of landscape and would truly be unique displayed in a round room.
Some scenes I paint again, a year later, to record a different mood of the day, time of the year and different weather conditions.
They are the same scene but completely different paintings.
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Christine Johnson started her career on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands where she painted and sold numerous landscapes, still life and portraits in the late 70’s.