WendyJohnsonArt

Scary Fellow
6 x 8 oil on panel
10/2025 #resist

Mindful of the dangerous times in which we live, and a strong desire to paint a reflection these times;

Hands Off Rally- March 2025
6x8 Oil on linen panel
St. Paul, Minnesota

Red River rapids
6 x 8 oil on linen panel
Northern Wisconsin
2023

Embarrass River rushes north
8 x 10 Oil on linen panel
Wisconsin 2024

Happy Earth Day
We are the stewards of this beautiful and fragile planet. 🌎

Laser Sunset
8 x 10 Oil on Linen
Pacific Coast, Mexico

Spending a lot of time painting the beach. It’s a good place to lose yourself.

In 2022, I took a workshop in Padula, Italy with Joe Paquet and a great group through Art Center Padula and Melinda Borysevicz.

This is an 11 x 14 commission I recently completed of this lovely memory.

Shadows and Architecture; Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula, Italy
11 x 14 Oil on canvas

Glorious
10 x 12 Oil - Linen panel
Northern Wisconsin

From my gaudy sunset series. This past six months I have been studying sunrises and sunsets and transitions of color. Vibrant color. Almost Elvis Velvet painting color - on the verge of being gaudy.
I hope it causes a little stir.

Dutchess County at daybreak
11x14 oil on linen

Morning fog on Big Lake
8 x 10 Oil on Linen panel

Mexican Pacific coast at dusk.
8 x 10 Oil on linen panel

Padula still life
8x10 oil on linen panel
2/2025

I am not a big fan of still life paintings generally, but this was a good challenge in mid winter in Minnesota.

Bahia La Boca
8x10 Oil on Linen
Mexico

Slowly the west reaches for clothes of new colors which it passes to a row of ancient trees. You look, and soon these two worlds both leave you; one part climbs toward heaven, one sinks to the earth, leaving you, not really belonging to either….
~ Rilke

Afterglow
11x14 Oil on linen birch panel