Specialising in Plein Air Workshops in Oil & Pastel

Michael Chesley Johnson is an award-winning oil and pastel painter working in the American Southwest, coastal Maine and the Canadian Maritimes. He specialises in teaching plein air workshops in oil and pastel. Elected a Master Pastellist by Pastel Artists Canada in 2008, he is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America as well as a juried member of Oil Painters of America.

Michael is the author of Backpacker Painting: Outdoors with Oil & Pastel and Through a Painter's Brush: A Year on Campobello Island. He writes regularly for The Pastel Journal and The Artist's Magazine. Michael lives and paints on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, and shows his work in his own gallery, Friar's Bay Studio Gallery.