A bird about to launch off of the Earth into a space of power images

Prepared for Chaos

The jungles of Costa Rica as depicted in living color

Anti-Civilized 

A painting with lots of color, the word "money," a paint brush, abstract shapes, and line drawings of dollar bills.

Money

Abstract filled with bold colors - primarily orange, blue, green  - in flowing circles and organic forms. 

Untitled

Carving on a "cookie" cut from the trunk of a suburban fir tree.

Salute'

An entry to the Minneapolis State Fair honey show painted in bright sunlight.

Honey Pot 

A painting of a face of an older woman of color expressing rage and disappointment, emerging from a dark espresso halo ending in a flash of white against a brilliant red background.

Consequences

A watercolor painting of a cluster of 4 deep bright rose/maroon fully open roses viewed up closely with a light/dark green background.

Cluster of Roses

Polka dot vase

A mandala painted in mainly blues in the center of the yellow canvas. Multicolored painted circles surround the center mandala. 

Healing in Progress 

A head and shoulders portrait of a forty year old man with a sky blue background.

Thaddeus Rembrandt

A painting of a yellow cat dressed in 16th century blue riding attire, gazes longingly at a rabbit wearing a yellow and blue Edwardian day dress. She holds pink rose. He holds a riding crop.

His attentions.

“Abatores is my painting with Gus across the bottom, a purple wave, a pink triangle and dots of every color”

Abatores

Homage to Mary Abbott

Black canvas with a purple full moon and red and blue crescent moons.

Messed up Phases

A painting of a Sea Turtle from Isla Mujeres Mexico, the water is filled with colorful coral and sea life.

Isla Mujeres Sea Turtle

An oil painting of the floating wooden bridge that crosses Wood Lake Nature Center in Richfield, MN. The greens and golds reflected in the water capture the peace and beauty of late Summer in Minnesota. 

Peace In Wood Lake 

An abstract: a tree in a flood of cerulean blues being blown; greens pushed by white waves and splashes of red-orange- green purple leaves scattered about.

Autumn in a Swirl

A painting of a harbor town on the edge of the ocean, with sailboats in the bay.

Northeast Harbor III

A watercolor painting of a blue whale with speckles surrounding it to depict the ocean. 

Deep Sea Blues 

Different colored lemon shaped smiling faces on a black background with the message "ALL ARE WELCOME HERE" written in Capitol letters over the image

All Are Welcome

A 3D painting of the sprawling green landscape of Ireland with touches of yellow and blue to capture the beauty of the island. 

Irlanda #5

Sumo

A mixed media painting of an eye emerging out of turbulent waters, with real fall leaves surrounding it, representing/creating an image like a hurricane.

Eye of the Storm

A figurative abstract white angel with a blue heart against a blue background.

Loneliness

Landscape painting of sunrise over Schumacher's Slough on the edge of Lake Carlos State Park, a wetland area with reeds and surrounding and distant oak forests with the peach and orange glow on lake and clouds of a midsummer sunrise.

Schumacher's Slough Sunrise

This began as an under-painting of an old studio chair that I wouldn't work on again for nearly 20 years. It was this past spring when I finished it; I guess we were both ready.

Absent Presence

A painting of an explosion of flowers.  Studies have shown flowers have an immediate impact on happiness and provide long term positive effects on mood.  Everyone could use that in 2020.

Bundles of Joy

Grey / black abstract highly textured painting, with black and muted, greyed colors in background, which has a subtle horizontal orientation. It is broken or divided by diagonal lines breaking into the space, angled left, from the top and the bottom.

Interruption

A figure that transitions from foot to leg to boot to shirt to head. The setting is blue and pink flowers on a tapestry background

Prepared for Chaos, 2020

Constance Stockwell Johnson