About the Artist & Designer

Oksana Johnson is a San Francisco-based oil painter and designer who has lived in the Bay Area for over 20 years. Whether painting from her studio overlooking the Pacific Ocean, or working en plein air as a traveler in Europe, Japan, or elsewhere in the United States, she tries to convey her emotional impressions rather than simply depicting the scene in front of her.

Her style has been influenced by many Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters -- including Degas, Monet, Renoir, Morisot, Van Gogh, Bonnard, and Korovin -- as well as years of continuing experimentation and sensitive observations as a traveler, artist, and human being.

“My primary focus is on painting scenes that capture special moments in time.  My philosophy is ‘staying in and appreciating’ the moment.  Painting has taught me to focus on what is happening now, and to pay greater attention not only to the outside world but also to my own responses to it.  I have learned that life becomes happier and more meaningful that way.”

In the summer of 2020, Oksana's oil painting "A View from the Pier" was selected for The de Young Open exhibition at San Francisco's de Young Museum (October 2020 to January 2021).