Here is a small selection of the work featured in the exhibition

LOVE

Love describes Johnson Wahl’s deeply personal approach to art. Paintings of her first husband, Stanley Johnson, her four children and her siblings populate her early work.

Alexander Painting

Johnson Children with Daisies

Stanley with Orange Hair

Leo and Jo in Green Shorts

PORTRAITS

During the 1980s, divorced and living in London, Johnson Wahl earned her living painting commissioned portraits of friends and society figures.

Portrait of the Gazzo Twins

Portrait of David Watt

Portrait of Laura Lankester and Twinkle

Portrait of Edmund Fawcett

CRISIS

In 1974 Johnson Wahl suffered a severe and prolonged mental breakdown. This emotionally painful period was artistically highly productive.

Phobia

Maudsley Patients

Group Therapy

Ward Round - A consultant and his firm

SOCIETY

Johnson Wahl’s paintings of the wider world are compelling: Seventies dinner parties, busy New York streets, Parisian boulevards and iconic views of London.

Restaurant

Dinner in East Hampton

Helicopter over New York

Subway NYC

PERSPECTIVE

Johnson Wahl’s self portraits and deceptively simple still lifes reveal the sheer range of her work over a fifty year period.

Self Portrait 1975

Red Cyclamen

Strawberries

Self Portrait Blue