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For over fifty years, George Johnson's path as an abstract painter has length and strength, vigour and rigour. If the first third saw an exploration of media, form and structure, the years since have seen an austere focus on a restrained palette and a tight vocabulary.   The result is nothing if not distinctive. Rectangles, squares, lines and triangles all inter-react on an off-white ground – but in a broad emotive range. Geometric abstraction is classically seen as cool, studied and dispassionate....more