About the Artist

Ruth Johnson is a woman of certain age who embarked on a new adventure the second half of her life. After 30 years of yard sales, thrift stores, rock collecting, and studying local fauna and flora, she has brought together all these elements into an honest and uniquely framed art form. Although her works could be categorized as “folk art,” “found object art” best describes the process of bringing together objects that rhyme and flow in concert with one another to give them new meaning. 

All of her compositions contain recycled materials.  As a result, some of her works hang outside (protected from direct rain, please!) under an eave or on a porch, often near the edges of the landscape that inspired them. Released from the confines of glass, the montages are 3-dimensional, textured, and touchable.  Everyday objects are transformed into themes and dreams. The domestic and exotic find a fusion.   

Found Object Art incorporates re-found treasures such as beach glass, figurines, rocks, tree bark, branches, grasses, tile, junk jewelry, coins, shells, masks, feathers, and seeds. A journey around someone’s back yard can nearly always yield treasures and textures – the raw materials of her vision.

Ruth currently resides on Ben Lomond Mountain in Northern California , amid the mystical redwoods.