Arabesque
Melbourne based artist Christine Johnson creates paintings that draw the viewer into a contemplation of life and its brevity. Nature has long been the focus of Johnson’s paintings, the artist drawing on its ability to speak of complex matters – love, exuberance and abundance as well as impermanence, grief and longing. In her forthcoming exhibition Arabesque, Johnson has made a shift from the representational imagery she derived from cultivated nature to focus on the ornamental garden motifs of Islamic...
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