Cheryl Johnson

Introduction

Cheryl Johnson is an American abstract expressionist painter who divides her time between studios in Kauai, Hawaii, and Charlotte, North Carolina, and who left a long career as an IBM instructional designer and graphic artist in 2010 to paint full-time. Her work has appeared in galleries throughout the US and is held in numerous private collections across the US, Europe, and Canada.

With a long and varied career as an instructional designer and graphic artist. Johnson worked for many years as an instructional designer and graphic designer and was ensconced in a life of technology and marketing. In 2010, she gave up a regular pay cheque at IBM to pursue her love of painting full-time.
Cheryl Johnson describes painting as “a way of sharing my internal dialog in an external way. My commitment is to create dynamic yet sensitive, lyrically beautiful, works of art. My work resonates with a passion for color, line and light created to share an expression of overlapping time, memory and reality. My intention is to create work that is truthful and real, that has depth and is compelling from a distance and up close. I have come to believe that gravitas in art relates most specifically to how well the artist can transform an emotional idea into its visual equivalent. ”