Drawing PGDip, The Royal Drawing School, 2017
Charlotte Johnston studied Fine Art Painting at Gray's School of Art and the Royal Drawing School. Her work is captivated by the natural world – Hampstead Heath ponds, subtropical botanical gardens, parks and the ever-changing rural landscape. Johnston's immersive studies rendered in lush Indian ink bewitchingly capture these spaces, documenting nature's most subtle and significant changes.
"I studied Fine Art Painting at Grays School of Art and the Drawing School, making work every day in museums or outside in parks and gardens. Subtropical botanical gardens have provided sources for me to work from where I use drawing as a form of research to investigate the physical rhythms and structures in nature. In the studio I further explore these observations in a cyclical group of large drawings and paintings which aim to give the viewer an immersive, sensual experience, derived from observational drawings and a re-ordering of my experiences using a more abstract language of mark making." - Charlotte Johnston
