November 2003
d'Elaine Johnson
Edmonds, WA
delainepisces@cs.comd'Elaine Johnson has a MA in art education and an MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle. She has taught for 24 years and now makes art full-time. Johnson is an artist whose work is an outgrowth of her travels and study of mythology. Simulating the effect of objects seen through a liquid medium, her paintings include many layers of acrylic washes built up within a highly transparent surface created by stretching rice papers over boards. Johnson's work directly relates to myths of the sea through symbolic imagery, and each piece is coupled with a citation that reveals the particular myth upon which the work is based. "My paintings focus on the principle of water, the giver of life to our universe and the connector of all land masses into one whole world”. Joseph Campbell has remained one of her major influences. Her artwork has appeared in over 500 exhibits, half of which were one-person shows.
