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Yvie Johnson

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Striking sunsets and falling leaves. Yvie’s favourite time of year is autumn, when colours peak before glowing warm hues. Many of Yvie’s landscapes are set as the point of sunrise or sunset. Using rich colours and strong light.

An image showing a young teenage boy sat on a rock in a field of flowers. He is wearing an iron pot on his head. He has red hair coming out from under the iron pot. His clothing is medieval with short sleeve armour. He has long boots that come up to armoured knee coverings. He wears a collared tunic with a rope tied around his waist. He holds a bunch of flowers in his left hand, and his right hand is reaching out to a butterfly that is glowing inside a bright orb of light and sparkles. His eyes are bright and his mouth is agape. Behind him is a vast landscape with mountains, trees and a fairytale castle on a rocky outcrop. To his left is a large old tree with two wooden signs nailed to it. The top sign reads: “CASTELL” which is Welsh and translates to “Castle”. The wooden sign below that has an arrow pointing towards the large castle in the distance. The sun is setting on the horizon so the sky is lit up with oranges and pinks.
Digital illustration by Yvie Johnson. A portrait of a woman in a countryside facing forward as her body comes around the side of a tree. Her left hand is holding the tree trunk, which curves up the side of the image and frames the top of the image. She has very long flowing pink hair swept over her right shoulder. She wears a floral crown of yellow, blue and pink flowers with green leaves. Her hair is plate around the top. She is wearing a long cloak hangs from an owl brooch around her chest. There is a twig of lavender attached to the cloak. Her upper body is covered in a long-sleeved ruched roll neck shirt, as well as a pinafore that attaches around the waist and flows over her large pleated skirt. In the background there is a blue sky with fluffy clouds. Rolling hills with ploughing lines. Large established deciduous trees on either side of the image in the rolling grassy land. At the top is a roll script with text that reads: “BLOSSOM”. Text at the bottom left of the image is overlaid and reads: “Blodeuwedd from the Mabinogion”. The image is outlined in a blue frame. There is anon overlay of grid lines as if the image has been drawn on a sheet of grid-lined paper The feel is medieval.
Digital illustration by Yvie Johnson is an image of the ocean, with a whale swimming underneath the water, light streaming through the water towards the whale, with and lots of coral and small marine life at the bottom of the image. Above the ocean water level is a mountain range, three birds flying in the sky just above the skyline. Behind the mountains are clouds stretched across the sky, the sky is colourful and also arched over the mountains going from light yellow at the sky line to purple at the top of the image where there are faint stars.
A digital illustration, by Yvie Johnson, with a thin border. The image is a digital illustration of a green Wood Dragon floating in a figure of 8 through a dark forest. It has its eyes and mouth open and a light smile. It has flowing orange hair, moustache and beard filled with leaves and flowers. There are flowers, mushrooms and foliage in the foreground, and reads "2024" with stars around it. The background is a forest of birch trees with two lanterns lighting up the dragon. There are lots of glowing flower stars across the image.
Portrait illustration of a black cat wearing a large flower around its head, with a puffball skirt, rolled up jeans and trainers. There are sunflowers in the foreground, a mixture of flowers in the middle, and in the background there is a sky with clouds, bushes, trees and grass. There are five bumblebees flying around. The cat is holding one flower up in its left paw, and holding a bunch of flowers with its right paw.
Digital illustration by Yvie Juniper-Johnson. The background is a landscape of abstract hill shapes and a large rising sun on the horizon. In the centre at the front is a white female with flowing long orange hair, wearing a short-sleeve top, sitting in a wheelchair and facing away towards the rising sun. In her left hand is a large flagpole and on the flag is written the text in hand-lettering: “Passion Project”. The flag flies above her head. There is foliage either side of her. Vines with thorns can be seen creeping in to the image and they wrap around her wheels. Birds and clouds are in the sky.
Illustration: On a purple background with pink twinkling stars, there are 4 visuals. One is on a yellow background in the shape of a speech bubble which features a person with purple hair in their room, advocating from their bed, on their laptop. They have their headphones on and are wearing a yellow shirt. A portion of their room is visible and includes a blue bedside table with medicines on it and a red first aid box, a stand above their bed with books and plants, and another bedside table on the opposite side of the bed in green colour, on which their walking stick rests. A visual on an orange background shows a close-up of their laptop screen, which presents a blog with the title, ‘MAPA’. There is another visual on a green background, again in the shape of a speech bubble which features two people attending a climate protest. One person is standing holding a yellow board with black text, “most to lose” in all caps, and the symbol of a wheelchair user. They are with another person who is in a purple colour wheelchair. Their faces are blurred out in black color. There is a hand in the foreground holding a video camera that is recording the two protesters and the tag on the top of the camera reads D.W.P in all caps. There is a final visual featured on a greyish-blue speech bubble. It shows a climate activist speaking at the UN. They have their blonde hair braided and are wearing a purple top and blue jeans, fastened with an orange belt. There is a graph behind them that shows how the climate crisis is escalating.
Digital illustration of a person with burgundy-coloured hair, wearing a green top and blue pants is sitting in a wheelchair, holding a white colour board with blue text that says, “Nothing about us, without us” in all caps. There are symbols for a wheelchair user and a hearing aid on it. The person is facing a closed door that is greyish blue in colour and has twinkling stars in light blue coming up from a large keyhole. The door has a pale-yellow sign hung on it that says “climate forum” in all caps, with text yellow in colour. The wall around the door has bricks that are orange in colour, followed by pastel green, yellow and brown colours. There is a blanket of green leaves that hangs from the top of the wall. A blue pot with an orange flowering plant sits beside the door and has a note in yellow with the text, “gone 4 lunch” in black and all caps. The ground is grey in colour. The person in the wheelchair looks dejected at not being able to attend the climate forum.