Born
in Brisbane, Kerry Johns grew up in the coastal town of Caloundra
in southeast Queensland. She became a high school art teacher (Secondary
Art Teaching Diploma at Kelvin Grove Teachers College Brisbane).
She studied
painting in Sydney at the John Ogburn Studio for two years, leaving
to undertake an extensive study
tour of European galleries and museums, including painting
sojourns in Paris and the south of France.
Since her first exhibition
in 1979 Kerry Johns has shown in numerous group, invitation and solo
exhibitions
in commercial and Regional Galleries in Sydney, NSW, Queensland,
Western Australia
and most recently in New York. Her work is in private collections in
Australia and overseas.
The focus of
her painting continues to be articulating her relationship
with landscape.
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