Elizabeth Johns at the Art Depot

On Sunday the Arts Depot in Abingdon held the opening reception for Elizabeth Johns' latest exhibition. Elizabeth has recently been experimenting with making small pieces in acrylic on board after many years of working almost exclusively in oil on canvas. In her artist statement, she indicates that she is enjoying the ability to work quickly with the fast drying time of acrylic. This frees her to capture images "before they can skitter away."

Many of the paintings in the exhibition can be accessed at the artist's website.
http://elizabethjohns.com/Paintings.html

A friend snapped a photo of Elizabeth and myself.

The reception began at 2pm and when I arrived at 2:15 a goodly portion of the paintings already sported little red sold tags, including the one above. I think it was called Two Views and portrays the woman catching what look like pearls while the gentleman relinquishes a handful of tears.

This series is called The Wooing.

My friend Ginny purchased the two paintings on the bottom left and bottom right of this grouping. She says the depictions represent her daughter and herself.

Carina