Mandy Johnson, whose childhood drawings of peaches were always hot pink, started her passion early, taking inspiration from the animal menagerie on her family’s Scotland Neck farm.
A college and real world art education at Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida, got her rolling. She took a brief twenty year break to seek higher education, teach art to middle school students, and to raise her daughter.
Since 1998, Mandy has returned to her painting passion full-time, conveying her vision of every day life in the south.  Mandy lives in coastal NC.