BIOGRAPHY - PENNY JOHNSON |
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| I was born in 1947 in St. Andrews Scotland and frequently lived with my family in West Africa. At 18, I moved toLondon. |
| Foundation Course |
Hornsey College of Art, London 1973 |
| Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree in Fine Art |
Middlesex Polytechnic 1976
(originally Hornsey College of Art) |
| Art Teachers Certificate (A.T.C.) Course |
Goldsmith’s College, University of London 1977 |
| Having moved to Holland, I settled in Amsterdam in July 1978.
I moved to Haarlem in the autumn of 1992. This provided me with a stable base for a dynamic life as artist and teacher.
I have also been working for many years as an art therapist in psychiatric hospital and day centre settings.
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Art Work |
| I worked originally in water colour and mixed media (including my own home made wax crayons). |
Shower Series |
| Deckchair Series |
| In between: illustration commission for a children's book published in Germany
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Dwerg Zwieberlieb |
| After working for many years in water colour, I started experimenting in 1983 with papermaking. Creating my own supply or palette of design colours and textures in sheets of felt-like paper, I incorporated these into my work on paper. Through this "collage" technique and mixed media the theme of the human figure in movement became the basis for abstraction. |
Paper making |
| Dance and Sport Series |
The next fase in my work was more structured and patterned but always with the illusion of change and polar opposites in mind. |
Geometric and interwoven |
| New inspiration came from the paper making process and from some of the dire events happening in the world at that time. |
Recent work |
Exhibitions
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| Galerie de Witte Voet, Amsterdam |
March 1980 |
| Raadhuis, Heerhugowaard |
December 1980 |
| Kitsch uit de Kunst (Holland Festival) in de Meervaart Amsterdam |
June/July 1981 |
| Kunst op Glad IJs Cultureel Centrum de Oosterpoort, Groningen |
January 1982 |
| Presentatie Kunst 82, Weert en Den Bosch |
July and September 1982 |
| Galerie Metz and Company, Amsterdam |
February 1984 |
| Galerie de Witte Voet, Amsterdam |
November 1985 |
| Galerie 23, Haarlem |
November 1992 |
| Revalidatie Centrum, Amsterdam |
June 1996 |
| Restaurant “De Gekroonde Hamer”, Haarlem (portretten studies) |
December 1996 |
| Verzorgingshuis Zuiderhout, Haarlem |
December 1996 |
| Portretten in Restaurant de Gekroonde Hamer, Haarlem |
November 1996 |
| Polikliniek voor Flebologie, Rotterdam |
June 1997 |
| Zorgcentrum Schalkweide, Haarlem |
September 1997 |
| Atrium, De Geestgronden, Bennebroek |
1999 |
| Algra Dekker & De Jong, Fysiotherapie Praktijk, Haarlem |
November 2003 |
| VU Medisch Centrum, Amsterdam |
August to October 2010
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