Biography
April Zanne Johnson is a synesthetic artist who incorporates perceptions from additional sensory experiences and selectively weaves the imagery into her oil paint & plexiglass paintings. The work varies in size, retaining integrity. Isolation & sound are essential and her studio is surrounded by acres of woodlands. This environment feeds her work. Her practice is based in Northwest New Jersey.
“The memory of lying in the grass and looking at the tiny world that exists within it is the earliest conception of my work. The first naturalist who saw the organisms in the microscope looked for parallels in the larger world. The possibility exists that our world is no more than a nanoscopic element contained in a megalithic organism. What technology could ever exist, to see such a megalithic form in whole? I enjoy fantasizing about these ideas, and my work develops rapidly from these thoughts.
My paintings are portals into possibilities that lie beyond our present technology. I perceive colorful patterns with sound and this is the base for form development and color choice. My work melds neurological and landscape imagery. Although my visual parallels are based in science, these forms do not exist in the physical world, but rather enjoy floating in my synesthetic world of infinite possibility.”
