1915-2010

Gwyneth Johnstone was an artist of great dedication, whose characteristic style - a hallucinogenic, haunting pastoral - was forged more than half a century ago and developed and refined over the decades.Her paintings were peopled with archaic fishermen, shepherds and lovers. Doves, owls, suns, moon, young women holding symbolic leaves, blockily rendered village houses and small chapels, secret hills and safe harbours made up an Arcadian world of prelapsarian innocence - Tanya Harrod, Guardian Obituary, 6 January 2011