Kerrie Johnston

Kerrie Colleen Jane, also known as 'Mrs Maker Is Art' was born in Bangor Co Down and studied fine art at the University of Ulster. 

Art has always been Kerrie's constant companion, she says, shaping how she navigates both the world around her and her world within. 

Rendered in Pastel and homemade charcoal, her latest pieces emerge from deep shadow into the slightest passages of light - a visual echo of how grief moves through a life.

Along side her drawings Kerrie writes accompanying poems or small intimate notes that help her articulate the things marks alone cannot hold. The poems are printed on seed paper and when planted they breakdown, root and grow. A gesture of renewal, memory and return.