Charmian Johnson - Catriona Jeffries

Charmian Johnson (b. 1939, Pouce Coupe, Canada, d. 2020, Vancouver, Canada) lived and worked in Vancouver. Over the past 40 years, her pottery and works on paper have been included in numerous group exhibitions across Canada, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Anthropology at The University of British Columbia, the Burnaby Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, and the Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa; most recently in Nature, Catriona Jeffries (2018), and Thrown: Influences and Intentions of West Coast Ceramics, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2004), which she co-curated. She has been accorded significant solo exhibitions, including Flora: Drawings by Charmian Johnson, Vancouver Art Gallery (1989); and An Exhibition of 99 Bowls by Charmian Johnson, University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery (1985). Johnson studied drawing, graphics, and pottery at the University of British Columbia.