BIO & ARTIST STATEMENT
Allison Dawn Johnson is a practicing artist and visual arts teacher. She lives and works in Vancouver, Canada on the traditional, ancestral territories of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh, Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen, Qayqayt and Tsawwassen people. As a graduate of Emily Carr and Simon Fraser University, she predominantly works in acrylic and oil painting, collage, sculpture and mixed-media materials. She has written and illustrated children’s books, teaches visual art and curates community art events that encourage inclusive connections through a creative form.
Her work constructs alternate worlds in ethereal landscapes that reference the Pacific Northwest. Her inspirations are deeply embedded within natural and nostalgic terrains, centred around an exploration of consciousness, identity and psycho-spirituality. She paints gently and welcomes the messy, illogical disorder of life in this process; It’s here where dreams and the subconscious influence her work. Her paintings are capsules of personal narratives, that aims to unearth what lies beneath the surface.