Lenox Art Walk on Memorial Day Weekend

"Flowering Meadow", 18" x 24", oil on canvas, Lydia Johnston

This Memorial Day Weekend I will be participating once again in the Lenox Spring Art Walk. The art walk will be held both Saturday and Sunday, May 29th and 30th, from 11 am to 5 pm each day. There will be demonstrations and opportunities to meet with artists.


"Dreaming of Flowers I", 8" x 9", oil on linen

I will be outside the Lenox Gallery of Fine Art at 69 Church Street on both days. During the art walk I will be displaying some of my smaller paintings, not regularly shown in the gallery, as well as giclée reproductions of some of my favorites. Please stop by and say hello, and then step into the gallery to see my newest large works.

New Paintings Delivered to Lenox Gallery

"Sun Gems", 30" x 40", oil on canvas, Lydia Johnston

The Memorial Day Artwalk in Lenox, MA is fast approaching, coming up May 29th and 30th. I just delivered three newly completed pieces in my gem series of meadow paintings to the Lenox Gallery of Fine Art, in preparation for the artwalk.


"Morning Bluebells", 24" x 30", oil on linen

Each of the "Gem" series is a close up view of a meadow in bloom, but each has a different color range evoking a different mood.


"Sunlit Gems", 30" x 40", oil on canvas

There are now nine of my "Gem" series at the Lenox Gallery, so stop by and see them all.

"Sky Sonatas"

"Sky Sonata XXIV", 10" x 10", oil on linen, Lydia Johnston

I just hung "Sky Sonatas", an exhibit of twenty-eight of my new sky paintings, in Spiral Press Café at Northshire Bookstore, Manchester, VT. Nine are mid to large paintings, and the rest smaller ones.

“I want my paintings to have mystery, to allude to the familiar while remaining wholly ambiguous. I'm not interested in supplying all the details of a specific place. I want there to be more than one interpretation. By hinting at things, I hope to trigger your imagination; I want you, the viewer, to bring some of your own experiences and recollections to the process. This collaboration allows you to connect in a profound way. I want you to sink into my art and be transported.”


"Sky Sonata XV", 10" x 13", oil on linen

Many of the new small oil paintings hanging in the exhibit are not yet up on my website, so I put together a page that shows all of these paintings. Just click HERE to see all twenty-eight paintings in the show. They will be hanging until June 2nd.

"Morning Bluebells"

"Morning Bluebells", 24" x 30", oil on linen, Lydia Johnston

I've just completed another piece in my gem series of meadow paintings. I love it in the early morning, mist hanging in the meadow, before the sun burns it off.