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Tora Johnson
Royal Mystery
Stages of Life
Artist's Statement
Graduate of St. Mary¹s Junior College, Raleigh, N.C. Graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, BS in English and History.
In 1974 Tora started painting in oils with Hans Kreutzfeldt and Hans Neubert in Germany and took workshops with David Slade in the US. She was introduced to watercolors by Wayne Spradley of Pell City and continues to study with him. Numerous workshops have taken her in different directions painting on paper, gessoed paper and Yupo, and collaging with stained or natural oriental papers and creating designs or textures on existing paintings. Her watercolor paintings have hung at Stringfellow Memorial Hospital, Anniston, and annually at Winter Market of the Anniston Museum of Natural History. They have also hung in the JSU Visual Arts Members¹ Show, JSU Miniworks exhibit and in a one-man show in the Fine Arts Building at The Donoho School. She has sold paintings from the Atlanta gallery, Works of His Hands. A number of her paintings can be seen at the Anniston gallery, Art Works, a cooperative fine arts gallery under East Alabama Artists, Inc. This is a nonprofit coop which shows and sells works of sixteen regional artists. Recently she had a one-man three-month exhibit at the Berman Museum of World History, Anniston, AL. In November 2005 she had a one man show at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham, AL. She received an Honorable Mention, with cash reward, from the Watercolor Society of Alabama during their annual Fall exhibit in 2005.
Watercolor Workshop Oct 19-24
Tora organized and has coordinated for ten years a watercolor workshop at Camp McDowell north of Birmingham. Each year she contracts with three artists to teach the 4 1/2 day workshop. Dates: October 19-24,2008. This year the teachers will be Pat Dews, multi-media artist, Janet Rogers, portrait and floral artist, and Wayne Spradley, realistic wildlife and landscape artist. Wayne, who is from Pell City, has taught at McDowell each year and continues to take beginners and once a year painters. Pat and Janet are well-known workshop teachers who have taught in many venues throughout the USA. If interested in attending the workshop this year or in the future, contact Tora through ArtWorks.
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