Lowcountry artist Carla Johannesmeyer was born in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where she gained a deep ap- preciation of the arts at an early age. Combining her love of art with a natural gift in math, she chose to pursue architecture at Virginia Tech, enhancing her technical education with studies in drawing, printmaking, pho- tography and film.
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Although she went on to have a successful career as an architect, environmental design leader and expert in process improvement, she continued to mentally collect images and inspirations to paint. With this diverse background, coupled with a love of the arts and a keen eye for composition, light and color, she immersed herself in painting. Today, Johannesmeyer’s oil paintings are reminiscent of post-impressionism but border on expressionism. Indeed, there is a lyrical quality to her work. She prefers a large brush relative to the size of the canvas and paints with visible, confi- dent brushstrokes, layering lush color to evoke light, shadow and reflections in her landscape, architectural, still life and figura- tive subjects.
