About the artist Dan Johnson

 

Dan Johnson was born in Charlotte, NC in 1958. His family residence at the time was in Raleigh, the city in which he still lives today. He started his art career at age 5. Throughout grade school, Johnson continued to develop his drawing ability. He would spend many hours at his desk at home drawing and designing. He won a couple of art contests during that time and was known at school for his art ability.

Post-high school education included 18 months of commercial art study at a community college. After school Johnson set sights on his work. His ability and skills refined through the discipline of hard work have served well in an accomplished career thus far.

After working in various areas of commercial art in the early 80's, Johnson narrowed his focus to illustration in 1984. As a freelance illustrator since 1987, his work has been used in various types of publishing, distributed nationwide, and reprinted in Europe. Commercial work has included providing digital imaging and retouch work for ad agency and business clients, some with meticulous standards. During this time Johnson has provided an exceptional service to clients and solved imaging/composition problems routinely. He has worked proficiently with a number of drawing and painting mediums including acrylic, oil, airbrush, and digital. Oil is his medium of choice for fine art.

Johnson favors realism and shows an outstanding sense of design and composition in his work. He says "One objective I have in painting is to reflect what seems to occur at random in creation, but is actually highly orchestrated in design".

Dan, Cathy, and their three children reside in North Carolina where Dan works in his home studio.