2025
Anne Johnstone‘s subject matter is her interior world. Her paintings and drawings are color dense and emotionally charged images about her inner life, everything from personal struggles to physical awareness to the world around her. Using acrylics and canvas collage on her paintings, she creates tightly knit compositions that vibrate with stilled energy. In her oil pastels, layered color takes on hard-to-define hues, while shapes bulge, defining space with both humor and determination. Her drawings combine crayon and gouache with pencil to create psychological dramas. Her style is most akin to abstract expressionism, with bold brush strokes which scribble and drip and declare themselves here for the action. She often uses a glazing medium to enhance the transparency of her colors, making visible the history of color application. “I am drawn to imbalance and asymmetry in my work. I seek to bring attention to those qualities while creating solid compositions.”
"The One in Front, The One Behind", Abstract, Red, Blue, Brown, Acrylic Painting
By Anne Johnstone
Located in Franklin, MA
Anne Johnstone’s "The One in Front, The One Behind" 20 x 16 x 1.5 inch abstract painting captivates with bold colors and geometric forms rendered through textured brush strokes that ...
Acrylic, Board
Abstract Expressionist Acrylic Painting, 20x16 Inches, "Enough of That"
By Anne Johnstone
Located in Franklin, MA
Anne Johnstone’s “Enough of That” is 20 x 16 inch on cradled board. The expressionist painting feels like a close, almost confrontational portrait reduced to color, gesture, and shap...
Acrylic, Board
"Attempted Reconciliation", Abstract, Figurative, Brown, Red, Acrylic Painting
By Anne Johnstone
Located in Franklin, MA
Anne Johnstone’s “Attempted Reconciliation” is an abstract figural acrylic painting on cradled board measuring 20 x 16 inches. Two abstracted figures lean together in a tender, ambig...
Acrylic, Board
"A Dream of Togetherness", Abstract, Gestural, Gray, Beige, Acrylic Painting
By Anne Johnstone
Located in Franklin, MA
Anne Johnstone’s “A Dream of Togetherness” is 20 x 16 inch acrylic on board. A muted, abstract composition unfolds in overlapping planes and gestural marks — intimate yet enigmatic. ...
Acrylic, Board
"Suspicion'", Abstract Expressionist, Blue, White, Black, Acrylic Painting
By Anne Johnstone
Located in Franklin, MA
Anne Johnstone’s “Suspicion” is 24 x 24 inches on cradled board. This abstract painting swirls with tension and motion, layering sweeping strokes of blue, white, black, and rust over...
Acrylic, Board
"Long Time Comin'", Abstract, Face, Black, Red, Green, Acrylic Painting
By Anne Johnstone
Located in Franklin, MA
Anne Johnstone’s 24 x 24 inch abstract acrylic painting, “Long Time Comin'”, features two face-like profiles facing each other. The left profile displays purples and reds with a stri...
Acrylic, Wood Panel
The woman with the scarf, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Emily STARCK
Located in Yardley, PA
Abstract expressionism artwork with a cold palette mainly blue, pink and orange. Gestural brush strokes with a professional and high quality painting with anti UV protection and vel...
Acrylic
Abstract Expressive woman's portrait acrylic on paper "What she holds within"
By Mougenot Natalya
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary abstract expressionist woman's portrait "What she holds within "was created by the French artist Natalya Mougenot. With her hand gently resting against her chin and...
Paper, Acrylic
Girl With A Curl, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Elizabeth Nagle
Located in Yardley, PA
Girl With A Curl is part of the Imaginary Friends series. She's the girl next door you grew up with. She made you laugh, she took you on adventures a...
Acrylic
'Abstract Figural', Woman Artist, Art Institute of Chicago, San Bernardino
By Suzanne Gertz
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, in graphite, 'Sue Gertz' for Suzanne Gertz (American, 1938-2003) and painted circa 1975. Suzanne Gertz first studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and, subsequ...
Oil, Canvas, Charcoal
Abstract Expressive Figurative Acrylic Portrait of a Woman "Inner strength"
By Natalya Mougenot
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
"Inner Strength" is a contemporary acrylic painting portraying a faceless woman with flowing brown hair against a rich dark orange background. The woman’s face is divided into two co...
Acrylic, Paper
Profile of Nude Woman III, Modern Oil Painting by Lisa Martin
By Lisa Martin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lisa Martin - Profile of Nude Woman III, Year: circa 2000, Medium: Oil on Canvas, Size: 14.75 x 18 in. (37.47 x 45.72 cm)
Oil
