Corrina
Johnson
Corrina Johnson began drawing
horses at five, and continued throughout school.
She won a scholarship for an oil painting course after high
school with a local wildlife artist, and learned to paint in an old
masters style. She then
studied figure drawing and fashion illustration at the
School
of
Visual Concepts
in
Seattle
,
WA
.
After taking time away from
art to get her accounting degree, she resumed her study of oil painting
by taking many workshops across the country with wildlife and landscape
artists including John Seery-Lester, Dan Mieduch, Tucker Smith, Greg
Beecham, Dan Young, Matt Smith, Ralph Oberg, Lorenzo Chavez, Ned
Mueller, Scott Christensen, George Strickland and Robert Moore. She also
studied weekly for two years with Ned Mueller in
Seattle
. She spent several years
plein air painting before returning to her love of animals.
She then began going to
Arizona
to do shows in the winter, returning to Washington and then
Jackson
,
Wyoming
in the summers. She received
a scholarship to study at the Scottsdale School of Art, and took several
classes there. She has
participated in the Phippen Western show, a group show in the Desert Art
Collection Gallery in La Quinta, CA, and participated in the Celebration
of Fine Art in and Fine Art Expo in
Scottsdale
,
AZ.