About

Johanna is a deeply creative soul and has built a life exploring Art, Nature, Food, Music, and Healing. She was greatly influenced growing up in the Midwest in nature by her family who were as much artists as they were scientist, philosophers, activists and spiritual seekers. She values family, living with the land and eating together in beauty and abundance as a way of life, and she enjoys sharing it anytime she can.

In her fine art she blends her love of science and nature with her passion for the human experience and her spiritual seeking. She is compelled by the study of figure, landscape and abstract painting and draws on these to create. She studied in China which influenced her work, including the idea of “painting energy”. She loves color and light and moves in a flurry of brush strokes. Painting is her happy place, a place of renewal, where she holds conversations about what she finds fascinating and beautiful.

In her healing conversations she brings her whole life experience and her creative heart. She has her own deep healing journey that she draws on to support others as they seek their own answers in life. She has studied energy and metaphysics extensively, and continues to go where she is guided.

In her Farm to Table project, she brings her passion for living with the land, and creating slow food experiences of beauty and abundance to life. Preparing food and bringing people together is another creative expression that embodies her care and love for nourishing others.

She is an empty nester, a gardener, a preparer of food. She often sings or talks to herself and can be found dancing in the kitchen or deep woods. She isn’t afraid to ask hard questions of herself and others, is as gentile as she is stern, and looks people in the eye as often as possible.