• Tiny blooms - the art of Christine Johnson

  • Jun 7 2022
  • Length: 50 mins
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Tiny blooms - the art of Christine Johnson

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  • Gardens, flowers and the creative process—today we explore all three as we meet flower painter Christine Johnson, and follow the threads of inspiration leading to a new art exhibition entirely of Australian native flowers. Christine's work over the past decades has focussed on gardens and flowers—most recently massive oil paintings that blow up the size of the flower to fill the picture frame. Until recently one of her primary sources has been her childhood garden, filled with exotics - roses, camellias, and the like. But when she moved to Melbourne's Lower Plenty region, Christine moved closer to the bush, and was there to witness the profound effect of the 2009 bushfires on the native plants. Since then, smaller, less showy flowers have caught her gaze and also her intellectual curiosity—and today we explore the artist's various inspirations, whose tendrils curl all the way from French emperor Napoleon and his botany-mad wife Josephine, to the Australian landscape artists Hans Heysen and Arthur Streeton.

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