Aaron Johnson
Taken directly from the artists website: http://www.aaronjohnson.net/artist.htm
The first five years of my life were spent within national parks in Washington, Oregon, and California, and since then nature has been my starting point. Nature's role in human life and our attitudes toward it form central concerns in my work.
Art began early. I was given my first set of oil paints at age five while living at Sequoia National Park. Formal education in art came much later, primarily at the University of California at Santa Cruz where I studied painting, printmaking, and drawing.
My education in printing continued in Covelo, California, where I learned the fundamentals of graphic design and the craft of letterpress printing while printing limited-edition books for The Yolla Bolly Press. Living in remote Round Valley also gave me time to observe nature and to begin my Tree series.
Some of his woodcuts:
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