Artweeks with Henrietta Lawson Johnston

As part of Oxfordshire Artweeks, the city’s largest arts festival, our Burford Gallery is hosting a select number of our artists across the week, from Sunday 18th May. We are delighted to be joined by five of our artists throughout the week, demonstrating how they bring their impressive pieces to life, whilst shedding light upon their practice and answering any questions you may have about their work.

On Saturday 24th May join us in store to meet artist, Henrietta Lawson Johnston between 10am and 2pm who will be in the gallery to provide a window into her creative working methods as she provides a rare opportunity to discuss and witness her process, working on her detailed oil painting and photographs to document her creations.

Henrietta is inspired by the scope of still life - an art form steeped in history - whether analysing a single object, an apparently simple bowl of fruit or a more complex arrangement. Her highly finished work is classical in approach, highly realistic, and always pervades a sense of calm. She seals her work with a matt varnish consciously promoting contemporary feel.

Henrietta studied History of Art at university and her love of the subject led her to become an artist. She concentrated on figure drawing at art school in Florence before training at the Atelier Canova in Rome where she realised oil paints were her medium. She now works as a professional artist in North Oxford.