Lydia Johnston

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I am a professional artist living and working in southern Vermont. My passion is for color. My oil landscapes are impressionistic. My goal is to capture a fleeting moment in time, the swaying seed heads of ripening grasses, the sparkle of wildflowers in a meadow. I am interested in the mood of the moment rather than the actual details of a location. A sense of the place is created without providing all the details, drawing you back continually to find something new. I have been working with color and design for the past twenty-three years. I started in fabric, creating my own designs for wall hangings and painting and dying my materials. These wall hangings are purely abstract, but often evoke a sense of the world around us. Color seduces me, the pale green tinged with red of a new maple leaf unfurling against the gray of a branch; the soft yellow of a daffodil against the deep blue of a cobalt vase. In my studio I search for just the right combinations of colors to captivate, to create movement at the same time as balance and harmony. In 2003, I began to work with oil paints from a desire to have more control of my colors. The serendipity of the fabric dying process was exhilarating, but unpredictable. Painting with oils gives me the control over color I was searching for. And with the switch in medium, my work changed from purely abstract to expressing landscapes. I have lived for more than twenty-nine years in a secluded spot in southwestern Vermont. Much of my inspiration comes from the passing seasons and the fields and woods surrounding me. • "Seduced By Color", Deborah Davis Fine Art Hudson, NY, 2008 • "Fencepost Memories", Lenox Gallery of Fine Art Lenox, MA, 2007 • Bistango Exhibit Irvine, CA, 2005 • "Seasonal Lights", Atrium at 125 High Street Boston, MA, 2004 • Monmouth Festival of the Arts, Tinton Falls, NJ, 2001, 2002 • Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2000 • Gross McCleaf Gallery Philadelphia, PA, 2000 • Bradiggins Arts Gallery, Hillsborough, NC, 2000, 2001

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