Jacqueline Johnston (born London 1949) has been painting for around 10 years professionally, but has  been a creative soul since she could pick up a pencil and is mainly self taught.   From her  studio in Fitzroy Falls in the Southern Highlands, she has for the past  five years  been  painting series  that reflect the  space  between what we feel and what we see, working with  colour and  energy as point of departure for her work.  2010  saw her unveil a very successful exhibition at the Bowral District Art Gallery and in 2012 at the Light Horse Gallery, Robertson. 2012 Jacqui also won the People's Choice in the John Copes Portrait Prize.  She loves to work on large pieces, usually abstract, in mixed media.​​ 2020  has been an exciting year work so far working on a number of private commissions and personal projects. 

Jacqueline also works as a spiritual healer and is very interested in the concept of energy being channelled into a painting – much along the lines of Yves Klein (who used to fix his price for a painting according to the amount of energy projected into them).​

Often the artist wonders where some of these paintings have “come” from – as in the process of painting, she tunes in and feels guided as to colour and form until the paintings “evolve”.  Often human faces and sometimes animals and birds manifest.  She has just about given up trying to fight it, as they are usually very beautiful and can be funny, and usually seem to be very appropriate, even prophetic.

She has  attended a summer workshop at Sturt with David Fairbairn, which opened up  a new energetic force in her paintings, resulting  in a new love, painting portraits, which included a new series on Mythologies in 2018.