In this interview with painter, photographer, botanic illustrator, printmaker, and writer, Margaret Galvin Johnson, we touch on: growing up in the Colorado outdoors, how the story of her life (now published in the New York Times best-selling book Hidden Valley Road) has influenced her work, mental health and wellbeing, joy in the process, abstraction and precision, teaching, Georgia O’Keeffe, and more!
Margaret is a multi-passionate artist. The pottery classes she took as a child gave her a new way of looking at the world. Her mother was a watercolor artist. Margaret would spend hours at the kitchen table watching her mother and learning from her. As a teenager buying a film camera became a top priority and while she still loves the camera she continues to grow as an artist in other directions like mixed media painting, oil painting, botanic illustration, and monotype printmaking.
Host and Producer, Becca Saulsberry, is a spunky communications designer who aims to address societal and environmental issues while nerding out on graphic design, illustration, creative nonfiction, and podcasting. Her favorite pastime, however, is playing outside.
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This project is funded in part by a grant from the Boulder Arts Commission, an agency of the Boulder City Council.
