British painter, photographer and film maker Nevill Johnson moved to Belfast in 1934. He then moved to Dublin in 1949, where he lived for the next five years. He quickly became a major artistic figure among the fraternity of atists, poets and playwrights centred in and around Baggot Street in Dublin at that time.
Often working in series’, Johnson’s individual style was strongly influenced by the cubist and surrealist paintings he saw in Paris in the 1930s. Johnson began to exhibit at the V
ictor Waddington Galleries, Dublin, in the mid 1940s alongside other notable Irish artists, such as Jack Butler Yeats, Louis le Brocquy, Gerard Dillon.
He also showed at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art and in galleries across Britain and Ireland. His work is represented in the collections of Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane and the Ulster Museum, Belfast.
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