Caroline Johnson is an emerging contemporary oil painter from the Adelaide hills known for evocative South Australian landscapes and still life paintings featuring her homegrown produce. From a young age, Caroline’s creativity was nurtured by her artist mother and an enduring interest saw her complete a Bachelor of Visual Art from the Adelaide Central School of Art in 2022.

Her oil painting is inspired by direct engagement with nature - either as an avid vegetable gardener, or as an observant rambler amidst the South Australian landscape. Her passion to paint is fuelled by a keen appreciation of nature and a sense of urgency to protect it.

These ‘still-life’s in the landscape’ are suggestive of Caroline’s visual playfulness in her hills garden; her captivating and ever-changing muse. Intrigued by the ambiguities triggered by her garden’s offerings in water and glass, Caroline provides the viewer with her cornucopia of interpretation, a recurrent theme in her still life works.

A regular participant in the South Australian Living Artist festival and Loreto SpringART, Caroline has also enjoyed showing comprehensive bodies of work in numerous group exhibitions, including at Fleurieu Art House, The Main Gallery, and Crafers Atelier. During the 2019 Adelaide Fringe Festival, Caroline’s Flinders Ranges inspired work was hung at Studio Bowden in Oratunga, an exhibition celebrating works created with fellow artists from a decade of annual Flinders retreats.

Her solo exhibitions since graduation include Fast Painting Slow Food at The Drawing Room, Hahndorf, and Food for the Soul that filled the Naracoorte Regional Art Gallery. Caroline has been a finalist in the Heysen Prize for Landscape, Adelaide Hills Prize for Landscape, and the Waverley Woollahra 9x5 Landscape Prize, and was awarded the 2022 artist residency by the South Australian Nature Foundation.