I am a color-loving abstract artist, creating art that adds beauty and life to any space. Inspired deeply by the Creator, I study the landscape, sea, sky and clouds as the sunlight changes their colors here in Southern California, where I was born and raised. My work is a combination of memories of places I’ve been and dreams of distant lands. All these elements make their way into each piece where there are layers of history.

After learning from a wonderful Art teacher in high school, I went on to earn my Bachelors of Arts degree in Studio Art at California State University, Long Beach.

The artistic process is a balance of science and intuition. I enjoy the physicality of the chemistry of colors and expressing them with acrylic paint, oil crayon, cold wax, graphite, transparent glazes, marks and painterly gestures. Simultaneously presenting as calm and dynamic.

Abstract painting is like creating a puzzle and solving it at the same time. In most paintings, there is a point of happy accidents – unintended movements of the hand, paint, or tool that adds or subtracts an element. As I respond to each one, it changes the direction of the painting.  I know when a painting is finished when I can sit back and enjoy the story.

All of my pieces are originals. 1/1.
Art and beauty is not a luxury, but a necessity in life. A salve to the soul. We are made for it and it calls to us deeply.

Kathy is married to her wonderful husband, Erik and lives in San Diego.

Kathy Johnson Studio gives back.  Being a good steward of the gifting God has given me and grateful for what we have, we are helping at-risk children, widows and the most the isolated gives us joy.