Grace Johansson

Bend, Oregon, is home base for Grace Johansson, a former school counselor with an MFA from Bard College. A summer residency in Sweden in 2017 reconnected the artist with Scandinavian roots, and the long northern light taught patience with layers and texture.

Impressionism and abstraction meet in scenes drawn mostly from Europe. Onion domes rise over a canal at the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg. Coral and yellow rowhouses line a Copenhagen street, and whitewashed homes tumble down to blue water on the Greek island of Symi. The canvases below are Johansson’s best sellers, each a matte canvas print on solid wood.