Suzanne Johnston was born in Montreal, Quebec. Suzanne balances her time between Whistler, where Suzanne and her husband run the Avello Spa & Health Club located in the Westin Resort & Spa Whistler Hotel and Roberts Creek on the beautiful Sunshine Coast where a lot of her inspiration for her art comes from.

As a child Suzanne Johnston always had a passion for the arts, which has only strengthened into adulthood. Inspired and full of zeal Suzanne emerged herself in her art undertaking a number of diverse workshops from pottery to quilting and a large variety of painting mediums. After exploring different forms, Suzanne’s artistic adventure became driven towards painting as she was inspired by the discovery of independent artists.

It was at one of Suzanne’s first workshops with renowned artists Suzanne Northcott of five days long of acrylic, abstract and anything goes and it was all about FUN. That is when Suzanne realized that art was going to be her life and there was no stopping her. After immersing herself in workshops, it was here that Suzanne found her passion in acrylic abstract where anything goes. After building up an impressive collection of her own work Suzanne Johnston began receiving lots of positive feedback from friends, family and other artists encouraging her to paint more and even to try and sell some of her work. That was all Suzanne needed to hear and has not looked back since.

 

 

 

 

Suzanne Johnston is truly an uninhibited and prolific artist. She has learnt a lot from trial and error and has combined techniques from all the workshops she has taken, to form her own unique imaginative style.

Suzanne Johnston approach to painting is quite varied. Sometimes she chooses a nice photograph of something familiar or emotionally moving and attempts to reproduce her view of its subject on canvas. More often, however, Suzanne just picks a palette and lets the paint fall where it may. Eventually the painting reveals itself to her, as if by magic, and she just goes where it takes her. Often she will apply gel and pumice stone or sand to the canvas before painting to give the surface texture. She then lets the shapes that emerge give her hints as to what to do next. She has no strong preference for subject matter just yet, but her paintings so far have revealed a tendency towards a mix of real and unreal, especially in her abstract figures. Her young style ranges from impressionist to expressionist to pseudo-realist. She believes that she will eventually find the strongest of her voices, but for now she's quite happy to be a creative "polyglot".

It is her sincere hope that you will enjoy viewing her paintings, and that you will at least find them interesting, if not moving and meaningful to you in some way. She encourages you to leave comments in the guestbook.