Michael Chesley Johnson, MPAC, PSA, PSNM, is an award-winning oil and pastel plein air painter working in the American Southwest and the Canadian Maritimes. Elected a Master Pastellist by Pastel Artists Canada in 2008, he is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America as well as a juried member of Oil Painters of America. Michael is the author of Backpacker Painting: Outdoors with Pastel & Oil and Through a Painter's Brush: A Year on Campobello Island. He writes regularly for The Pastel Journal and The Artist's Magazine. Michael lives and paints on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, and shows his work in his own gallery, Friar's Bay Studio Gallery. He teaches throughout North America.

From January-March 2009, Michael will be in Sedona, Arizona, teaching advanced painting workshops.
See www.PaintSedona.com for more information.

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