Michael Chesley Johnson - Landscapes, Seascapes, Maritimes, Plein Air Painter in Oil and Pastel, Workshops

"Weybridge, Wet Spring" - WINNER, OUTSTANDING GENRE AWARD
2008 4th Annual Northeast National Pastel Exhibition
Old Forge NY - May 10- June 8

Michael's Recent Book
Through a Painter's Brush

Michael's Upcoming Book
Backpacker Painting

Doug Dawson Mentoring
Workshop Sept 1-5
Michael is hosting this special workshop. Dawson is this year's Pastel Society of America Honoree and a PSA Master Pastellist. He will work in pastel, but oil painters are welcome.

Michael's Studio
Friar's Bay Studio Gallery

Michael Chesley Johnson, PSA, PSNM, is an award-winning oil and pastel plein air painter working in the American Southwest and the Canadian Maritimes. A Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America and the Pastel Society of New Mexico, as well as a juried member of Oil Painters of America, he teaches workshops throughout North America. Michael is the author of Through a Painter's Brush: A Year on Campobello Island and writes regularly for The Pastel Journal and The Artist's Magazine. His new book, Backpacker Painting: Outdoors with Pastel & Oil, will be out in 2008. His studio is on Campobello Island, New Brunswick.