Johanna Willbraham - Biography

The modern art school is a place where those students who wish to paint portraits or traditional landscapes are largely ignored by their tutors or actively dissuaded and encouraged down the video/installation/conceptual route. Sometimes a young artist comes along who is self assured enough to stick with what they wish to do.

Johanna Wilbraham came to our notice in 2007 when New British Artists first sponsored the Visitors Choice Prize at the National Open Art Exhibition. We believe that the public are often better judges of ‘good art’ than those with worthy titles. Johanna’s modern portraiture was highly unusual in depicting young people, often on the cusp of adulthood, whose mesmeric eyes captured that intense vulnerability. Obviously she won the public vote that year and we are happy to have represented her work since then.

Johanna is a totally lovely young lady. When she has a break from painting she can be found helping at a home for destitute and orphaned children near Chennai, India.

A full exhibition cv can be emailed to you on request.