NCA for Refuge

Kathryn Johnson is a Scottish oil painter whose atmospheric paintings strive to create a conversation about our emotions and experiences in nature. A graduate of Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, she has also exhibited in Dundee, Edinburgh, London, Berlin and Como, Italy. In September of 2019 she embarked on a three week residency living with an indigenous community in Armila, Panama, with La Wayaka Current. In January 2020, she was selected for FBA Futures at the Mall Galleries in London, the UK’s largest annual survey of emerging contemporary figurative art. This led her to being selected for Glyndebourne’s Forces of Nature 2020 show, featuring ten female painters.

Her work explores the powerful sensations of being in nature. Kathryn strives for a balance between the physical landscape we see in front of us and the one we feel and remember.