D.E.Johnston

D.E.JOHNSTON paints landscape in Watercolours.  Born and brought up in Laurencekirk, in the heart of the Mearns, he finds the landscape around his home a continuing source of inspiration.  His work is a celebration of ordinary things: dark lines of trees against the heat of a July afternoon, field patterns in early August, the washed out dried grasses of a late September field edge.  And, always, the light itself constantly changing under unpredictable skies.  

David likes to work directly from nature whenever possible. However frustrating at times, given the Scottish climate,  David finds nothing can compare with the experience of painting on the spot. "Whenever I try to work from drawings and notes, I am always aware of a distancing process, a sense of detachment. Working in the landscape - rather than from it - the painting becomes the result of a process which involves all the senses. Watercolour is the ideal medium - uniquely responsive to the atmospheric conditions in which the work is created. The Mearns is an area of great beauty - of broad panoramas, patchwork field patterns set against the distant blue of the Grampians and of ever changing skies. My watercolours are an attempt to portray and celebrate its uniqueness."   

David has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad.  He has work  in a number of collections and has been a finalist in the Singer-Friedlander Sunday Times Watercolour Competition.

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