JAMES F JOHNSTON
GOLDEN HAR

gold paste and acrylic on handmade paper, signed

29.5cm x 42cm

Born in 1966, painter and musician James F Johnston has primarily been known for his work as a musician, with his own band Gallon Drunk, as a former member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and more recently for touring and recording with PJ Harvey. His paintings are both bold and loose, marked by their rich and striking use of colour. The often unsettling, darkly humorous and totemic images are based between the everyday and the world of the imagination, grounded with a sense of simplicity and beauty. A prolific painter, Johnston’s work has been used on book covers, as album artwork and featured in a variety of international arts publications, with paintings in the collection of the University of Chicago Center in Paris.
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