Rodney & Anne Johnson.

Rod & Anne Johnson
540 Lee Ave.
h2ocolors@sbcglobal.net

Rod and Anne Johnson do watercolor and acrylic painting under the name WATERCOLORS at their home... a large white framed house with the front yard a flower and sculpture garden, located about two blocks west of Rock Hill Road at 540 Lee Ave. We also have a gallery there. Many of the paintings are framed, some are copies, and most are for sale. See their biographies below.

ROD & ANNE WILL ONLY BE OPEN ON SUNDAY NOV. 4!


In the Stillness of the Woods by Rod Johnson	Dream Boat by Rod Johnson

Dream Cottage by Rod Johnson	Cleomes by Anne Johnson

Tim by Anne Johnson	Freshly Blanketed Lee (Webster Groves) by Anne Johnson

Rod Johnson, retired, having been a clinical social worker for 50 years, begin painting in the l970s with his wife Anne in San Mugiel de Allende, Mexico, at the Instituto (a branch of the University of Guanajuato). Subsequently he has taken courses and workshops with Elderhostels around the country, Oasis, community colleges, St. Louis Artist Guild, and St. Louis Watercolor Society. He is a signature member of the St. Louis Watercolor Society and regularly exhibits paintings at C.J. Muggs Restaurant here in Webster Groves. In 2003 he had a retrospective called “Adventures in Painting,” with 200 of his paintings over the space of a year at the Oak Bend Branch of the St. Louis County library. For that he created a book explaining the range of his work, both in water color and acrylics, breaking his work down in chapters, to whit: Abstracts, Dreams, Faces, Flowers, Ideas, Man-Made Structures, Mountains, Myths and Rituals (including series to enrich storytelling), Places Remembered Home in Missouri, Reproducing What Is, Sky, Trees, Water, Whimsy, and Wordedness. This listing underlines his interest in experimentation and in following his muse which is leading him increasingly into doing abstracts. He has expanded into photography and poetry (some of which is made part of paintings) and currently is applying acrylics to wood.

Anne Johnson, a long time clinical social worker, begin painting when she and her family spent three months in the l970s in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. There she attended the Instituto, a branch of the University of Guanajuato. Subsequently she had taken numerous courses and workshops with community colleges, Oasis, Elderhostels, St. Louis Watercolor Society (STWCS), and St. Louis Artist Guild. She got second place in one of the latter’s shows. As a signature member and part of the administration of STWCS she regularly exhibits her paintings at CJ Muggs Restaurant in Webster Groves and often at First Bank, Manchester and Weidman Roads. She specializes in watercolors of flowers, landscapes, and portraits. She sees herself using the landscapes, portraits, and her flowers as documents of places, people, and plants she has enjoyed.