Ken Johnson

Biography

Ken Johnson’s distinctive contemporary paintings of the Australian, Italian and
Spanish landscape are iconic. Johnson has exhibited his works throughout almost all major international cities and has been included in art collections worldwide including The National Museum of Damascus, Syria, Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister of Australia and the Presidential Palace in Israel to name just a few.

With an art career that spans over 40 years, his work articulates his holistic approach to life; an emotive depiction of his travels and his commitment to humanitarian projects, fund raising for charities and community services.

His unique style transcends via the mood and atmospheric imagery, paying particular importance to ephemeral and chance encounters whilst researching often more isolated subjects, being carefully selected and paying homage to life and love.

His technical prowess affords him the title of being one of Australia’s most popular painters today.

“Ken Johnson has bent the meaning of depth with his approach to the landscape and human imagery using lines and insets. These are geometric metaphors and conceptual scansions of distance that evolve into a visionary representation.”

Select Exhibitions

100+ in Gold Coast, Tweed River, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Newcastle, Perth, Los Angeles, Chicago, Switzerland, New York, Massachusets, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpar, China, Korea, Scotland, Syria, India, Norway, Japan, Portugal.

Awards and Prizes

16+ in Gosford, Switzerland, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane.

Collections

AGL Electricity Ltd
Amrop International
The Art Trust, Melbourne
New Merck Pty Ltd
Medical Benefits Fund of Australia Ltd NEC Australia
NSW Treasury Corporation Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, NSW News Corporation
NRMA Australia
Omni Finance
Presidential Palace Israel
Rothschild
Rupert Murdoch (Private Collection) Salamon Smith Barney Australia P/L Southcorp
Star City Casino, Sydney
St George Bank
St Martins Properties
Time Inc
Trans City
Wesfarmers, Perth
William M Mercer
Woolworths Ltd
Bank of America
BHP Steel
Boston Consulting Group
BP Australia
Burdett Buckeridge & Young
Burnie Regional Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania
CGE Australia
CIG
Corrs, Chambers, Westgarth, Sydney CS First Boston Bank
DeBeers, London
Dresna Bank
Gandel Group
Gordon Pacific
Gosford City Council, New South Wales
Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister of Australia
Grosshill Properties, UK Hewlett Packard
Honda Australia
Jones Lang Wootton, UK Legal & General Insurance Ltd Leighton Holdings LtdLend Lease
Lloyds of London
McDonald’s Corporation
Dominos Corp . New York. USA 1998
Monash University
University of Hobart, Tasmania National Museum of Damascus, Syria Elle Macpherson (private collection) Bryce Courtney (private collection) Creditline Aust
Edith Cowan University Perth Immigration Museum Melbourne Korn Ferry International
JP Morgan
National Foods
N.E.C. Aust
Michael Parkinson
(private collection)
Tweed Regional Gallery
Umehara Nagoya Japan
University of North Queensland
JB Were
Western Australian Maritime
Museum Perth
Australian Embassy, Moscow Russia 2013
Rio Tinto