Kate Johnson is a full-time, professional artist whose work has evolved in the past year from doing life-like portraits and calligraphy on commission to focus on spirituality and finding the sacred in her paintings and crafts. Working under the business name Orison Crafts ('Orison' being a middle-English word meaning 'prayer'), she creates intricate patterns in acrylics, pastels, watercolors, and other media--often adding spiritual quotes in calligraphy--in search of her own spirituality and how it forms connections between others, and between others and herself. While Kate is mainly drawn to painting and...more
