Anna Johnson
PRINTMAKER PROFILE
ARTIST STATEMENT
Like Klee… my pencil takes a line for a walk to see what will happen. I love the element of chance in creativity and often use Photography or Collage to produce an idea. I am fascinated by the fleeting nature of life and the fingerprints of past lives.
My work feels and reaches for fragments of memories intuitively. It has a voice of its own, because my style is individual and unusual, based on my own life experience and my dream journal of unconscious thought. There is a veil on the spirit which, if lifted, will show the tattered threads of memory spiralling upwards towards an image. These are works with a modern voice; always interweaving the narrative of the storyteller-illustrator to recreate lost voices.
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PREVIOUSLY SELECTED PRINTS
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Failure To Thrive – Sun ray treatment circa 1950
by Anna Johnson
Photo Gravure w/ Etching on Hahnemühle
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Grey (Self Portrait aged 70)
by Anna Johnson
Acrylic Resist Etching w/ Open Bite & Aquatint on Hahnemühle Etching