Emily Johnston practices close to the earth. Her work often finds her on her knees by a stream, foraging rocks for the earth pigments she paints with, mixing them with river water. The process is spiritual and rooted in a desire for transformation: of our relationship with the land, and consequently of the cultural forces that threaten Life on our planet. Her work has been exhibited by Picture Room, 1053 Gallery, Bushel Collective, Still House, Ed. Varie, Sad Gallery in Brooklyn, and Galerie Brun L’Eglise in Paris. Most recently, her earth pigment paintings were on view in Tivoli, NY at Weird Specialty, and in 2022 she exhibited a selection from seven years of drawings at Birdsong Community Garden in Delhi, NY. Her images and writing have been published in the journal Documentum, edited by Teju Cole and last year in Producing Humans, by Dr. Iris Cushing. Emily is an American artist raised in Paris and living in the Western Catskills of New York.