Dawn Johnson considers herself a self-taught artist since she decided to obtain a degree in music rather than art upon graduating from High School. She never let her art and her creative spirit behind. Always drawing as a child, taking High School art classes in the summer while still in elementary school, and continuing to take formal, informal classes and experimenting throughout her life have keep her love of creating alive. She worked as apprentice to painter Ben Howatt in Houston Texas, studied drawing at the Glassell School of Art and studied watercolor painting with Mary Louis Verrilla in Pittsburgh.

Her current works are expressive abstracts, Digital Paintings, graphic Design and Photography.