As well as being a member of the Eagles Ski Club, Janet Johnson is an associate member of the Alpine Club as an artist since 2010, creating distillations of her journeys through the Alps on foot and on ski, in the mediums of watercolour, and oil paint. Her first exhibition at the club celebrated a familiar iconic journey, the Haute Route.
This second exhibition five years later focuses on further encounters with rock ,snow and ice in alpine terrain in Europe and Norway. There will be first encounters with climbing modest 4000 metre peaks inspired by being a member of the club, for an artist who is essentially a skier. Janet grew up in Pennsylvania in the USA where she was skiing down a small hill in her backyard by the age of five. Along side this short exhibit at the Alpine Club Janet will be exhibiting over a year, a group of watercolours titled, Arolla Sublime, at the Grand Hotel & Kurhaus in Arolla Switzerland opening in August 2015 and running to August 2016.
View Janet’s website for further information and to see the artworks: www.janetjohnsonart.co.uk
The Paintings can be viewed during AC London Lectures on further nights of October 13th and October 27th, or by arrangement with the AC office (+44) 020 7613 0755 during business hours.
The opening night is September 22nd at the club lecture hall. It is free to view the paintings. The club just asks for a small donation of a few pounds if you are staying for the lecture
Clare Roche: The Other Golden Age- the Nineteenth-century Development of Womens’ Climbing
Tuesday 22 September 2015, 07:30pm