About

Welcome to Artwork by Wade Johnston 

The work featured on this website is primarily digital collage work that is archival prints in limited edition runs of five. Each work is printed on 300gsm Rives BFK paper and the digital file is archived when the edition is sold out. Prints are available through Cohart and Saatchi online as unframed works that are titled, numbered and signed in graphite and come with a certificate of authenticity.

While I primarily work in the digital realm these days, I do continue to produce works in more traditional mediums, drawing, painting, photographing, and sculpting on a regular basis. I am a classically educated and trained artist that started my career before using digital tools was really an option.

Each of the sections listed in the menu are for individual series that consist of between 5 and 20 to a theme. As you look through the site you will see that there is an over arching component to the work. The use of pulp magazines and advertising headlines from the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

The works play with the absurdity of that content juxtaposed against equally absurd images, photographs, hand drawn and painted elements.