HOT OFF THE PRESS

Kaaren's second
book release for 2006
American Bounty
is now available!

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Kaaren's long awaited new book
Harvest Home
is now available.

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Kaaren has been painting for more than two decades.  Her passion for antiques and country collectibles inspired her to pursue her painting career. Extensive studies with nationally and internationally known artists helped her to refine her talents for original design and pain staking detail, which enabled her to achieve the prestigious Certified Decorative Artist (CDA) award in 1989 at the Washington, D.C. Convention of the Society of Decorative Painters.

Kaaren has taught at all the major decorative painting conventions in the United States and Canada.  Several of her designs have been featured in the Decorative Painter, Paint Works, Quick & Easy Painting, Tole World, Painting, and in Nihon Vogue, Japan's premier decorative painting magazine. Kaaren has also had three decorative painting books published, and has designed over 100 pattern packets.  She continues to devote her time to designing and teaching both on the national and international level.

As an instructor, Kaaren draws from both her formal education (she holds a Bachelor of Education degree from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec) and her "hands-on" classroom experience.  Students enjoy her casual yet engaging approach to teaching as she inspires them to learn new and different techniques with continued success and in a relaxed atmosphere.

Kaaren shares her thoughts:

"I count my blessings every day because when I started painting almost twenty years ago, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that my passion would become my career.  From the very first time that I picked up a brush, like most of you, I felt that I had been given a new lease on life.  I could not get enough...enough instruction, enough books, enough paints, enough brushes, enough packets... I wanted it ALL!  It is now my goal to try to share my knowledge and passion with as many of you as possible with the hope that you will experience the same joy and fulfillment that I experience every time I hold brush in hand.

"I am as excited about decorative painting today as I was when I first started painting.  Although my favorite subjects are country-inspired still lifes and Americana, I also like to paint florals and the traditional folk art style inspired by the late Peter Ompir."

After spending many years in south Florida, Kaaren, her husband Sam and their West Highland Terrier,  Mac, have recently relocated to a charming century home in the unspoiled, Victorian town of Vankleek Hill, Ontario. Click here to view Kaaren's home and perennial gardens.

To inquire about Kaaren's seminar information or about wholesale purchasing, please contact her at:

Kaaren Johnston, CDA
P.O. Box 954
119 Stanley Street
Vankleek Hill, Ontario
Canada 
K0B 1R0
Tel/Fax: 613-678-3577
email: info@kaarenjohnston.com