“I spent much of my childhood on the back porch of my family’s home in Texas, watching magnificent storms roll in across a vast horizon, like a symphony of light, sound and color, where earth and sky were in agreement. Sitting on that porch and watching those storms, always left me with a sense of calm. I made many observations, most of which are now metaphors. Those memories have never left me nor has the land or the people who sat with me in those moments. These recent landscape paintings are based in those childhood memories, in the grief of those I’ve lost, in moving past the grief and in the glory of watching great storms roll in.”

Jayne Johnson, Professor of Art, Queens University of Charlotte