{"id":12791,"date":"2019-11-30T13:14:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T12:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/?page_id=12791"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:28:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:28:52","slug":"james-johnston","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/?page_id=12791","title":{"rendered":"James Johnston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"397\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4436-397x500.jpg\" alt=\"James Johnston\" class=\"wp-image-19086 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4436-397x500.jpg 397w, https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4436-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4436-768x967.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4436-1220x1536.jpg 1220w, https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4436.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James Johnston (born 1966) is also known as a musician with Gallon Drunk, Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds as well as PJ Harvey, and has established himself as a painter in recent years. His first paintings were created on tour in hotel rooms; today, he works daily in his studio.<br>His paintings are figurative, raw, and expressive: bold colors, loose structures, and scenes full of mythic intensity characterize his visual language. Animals, nature, and solitary figures appear as mirrors of the human condition.<br><strong>Nick Cave<\/strong> describes his works as <strong>\u201epaintings full of mythic power.\u201c <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnston&#8217;s paintings are not a counterpoint to music, but rather an expression of the same immediate energy and archaic power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/janinebeangallery_QA_James_Johnston_14-9-2025_EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Q &amp; A James Johnston<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12791","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12791"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19200,"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12791\/revisions\/19200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}