| harrietjohns
the artist's story |
| Harriet Johns
began working in enamel in the early 70s at the Pioneer Enamel Plant in Seattle. This medium, largely ignored by the fine art world, was a revelation. Johns knew she had found her natural medium. A lifetime of travel, looking and questioning plus an intuitive feeling for the expressive power of color provide her shifting but internally consistant subject matter. In 1978, in Arequipa Peru, she recorded the following credo in her journals. it is still true.
"It is the immediacy of the impressions, the transience of light, the play of moving clouds, that I seek to record and capture in some fleeting form. it is as if the imprint, the seeing felt on my psyche is to be recalled and developed later. The power of the impressions, the spontaneous, the ever changing real. It is like the emotional power overriding all. It is Pachamama - the Earth Mother - that I respond to, not the linear, predictable surface, but the gut beneath it - above it all. Encompassing, changing, light, space, form - the intent. Energy. Emotional power." |
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