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Using the female form as a template Tree Dancers are my artistic vision of how we interact with the world around us They bathe in light, pull water up from the earth, exhale purity, and dance. I’m not sure people credit the powerful energy that a tree represents. Trees have this incredible ability to pull [...]

The Don Valley Art Club is holding it’s annual Spring Show at the Paper Mill Gallery at Todmorden Mills on Pottery Road in Toronto. The show is running May 7 & 8, and May 14 from 12 pm to 5 pm, and Sunday May 15 from 12 pm to 3 pm. The address is 67 [...]

Once again the Bayview Art Tour is happening in our neighbourhood. Local artists and artisans open their homes/studios for a show & sale on the second last weekend of October. The Manor will be open, and now that I have moved my studio down to the main floor I will feel more like I’m going [...]

Local artist Sharron Katz has organized a Leaside Davisville Nuit Blanche and invited me to take part. So I am setting up in the Tremblett ValuMart at 1500 Bayview here in Toronto Central. Rob Tremblett has kindly offered the use of his entrance and will even clear out the displays and shopping carts so I [...]

AWOL: I have 3 pieces hanging at AWOL Gallery’s 8th Annual Square Foot show. The number of pieces the gallery has put on display means that the show is now held at 2 different locations -  the original AWOL Gallery at 76/78 Ossington, and a large space at 100A Ossington on the 2nd floor. The [...]

Sessile are the faces I create for the special places this earth has, it’s places of power and significance where we can connect with the deeper parts of ourselves. There are focal points of energy, of creation, of pure expression. The fountainheads of possibility. That is what I explore with Sessile. They are closely connected [...]

Mark Johnson is a visual artist living in Toronto, Canada who wants to share his explorations of Wonder and Whimsy. His work follows the paths that branch from both thoughtful consideration of ideas and spontaneous visions. Using a unique weaving together of form, line and colour he expresses what he sees on those paths with [...]

Mark Johnson – Visual Artist http://www.markfineart.ca studio@markfineart.ca Toronto, Ontario Cell: (647) 291-7963 ART SHOWS: EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: MEMBERSHIPS: PERSONAL INTERESTS:

Born in 1957 in Toronto, Ontario, Mark Johnson moved with his family to Brantford, Ontario at the age of 11. Always a deep reader, as well as showing a strong interest in the visual arts, Mark would bike around and about this small southwestern Ontario city in search of the perfect place to bring a [...]