Kit JOHNS

Kit JOHNS

Kit Johns works from a studio near Cadgwith on the Lizard peninsula. His work explores the Cornish landscape in all its wildness. His paintings of the Cornish coastline have a raw intensity, incorporating sand, stone and seawater, as well as flotsam and jetsam.

Johns is a tutor at Newlyn School of Art (2020).

media

Painting in acrylics, oil and ink

exhibitions

2015: Summerhouse Gallery, Marazion (May)

2017: Of Time and Tide, Summerhouse Gallery, Marazion (7-21 Oct)

2019: A Cornish Springtime, Summerhouse Gallery, Marazion (April)

2019: Breaking Point, Summerhouse Gallery (July)

2020: Escaping the Ordinary, Summerhouse Gallery (Aug)

2021: Ten - A Celebration of Ten Years, Summerhouse Gallery, Marazion (3-10 July)

2022: Ocean Poem, Summerhouse Gallery (July)

2022: A Story of Winter, Summerhouse Gallery (Dec)

2023: Raw Materials, Summerhouse Gallery (28 July-11 Aug)

2024: Body of Water, Summerhouse Gallery (24 May-9 June)

2024: Maritime, Summerhouse Gallery, Marazion (23 Aug-8 Sept)

references

Cornwall Today (May 2015) 'No excuse not to be inspired' by Alex Wade

Cornwall Today (July 2019) 'Breaking Point'