Sonya Johnson, Featured Guest Artist at the Fifth Corner Photo Gallery

Local photographer and artist Sonya Johnson is the Guest Artist at the Fifth Corner Photo Gallery at the Durango Arts Center during the month of February.

Despite an early and enduring interest in art, Sonya’s path to becoming an artist was anything but direct. Her original intended career was in medicine. Following medical school, she relocated to Arizona to set up private practice as a podiatric physician and surgeon. After eight years in practice, she chose to retire from medicine for both personal and business reasons – a choice she has not regretted. She is now pursuing her true passion as an artist, and is blessed to have the support of her partner, Wayne, as she continues along her path as an artist. In July of 2010, Sonya and Wayne were able to realize their long-term plans and relocate permanently to Durango.

“I find endless inspiration in the world around me, including the southwest and landscape of the Colorado Plateau and local Durango area, along with animal, figurative and botanical subjects. Cloudscapes, skies and highways are recurrent themes in my work as well,” Sonya says.

”My painting style ranges from colorful expressionist depictions of landscape elements to a more representational style for figurative and still life subjects, with the majority of my work falling within a looser, impressionistic style, particularly my plein air landscapes.”

When she is not painting, Sonya enjoys trail running in Horse Gulch, hiking and snowshoeing in the San Juans, and traveling, camping and backpacking throughout the Four Corners region.

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