Blue skies. A mild sea. Soft breeze. Flags furled. People stroll. 
Quiet thoughts of those who serve.

[Gloucester, MA]

Watercolor, 8.5" x10."5, $150. [matted & white frame]

Picking sunflowers, pastel, Bohoy

That time of year.

Summer had waned.

Sunflowers peeked above fields of green.

In MV* Viv and me

picked sunny, smiley yellow faces

that went into waiting vases.

Pastel, 5x7, 2007
{Martha's Vineyard}

911 messages

Messages and a rose left on a wall at Ground Zero. 

Watercolor/mixed media, 7x5.

It's HOT.
Be COOL.

Watercolor, 5x7

Labor Day R&R, Bohoy

Labor Day.
Relax.
Enough said!

Pastel, 7x5 [SOLD]

Birds in egg. Pollution, extinction.

I did this art in college as I was concerned about pollution, extinction, and the environment back then. 

I also did my senior thesis project on the very subject. 

Amazing that so many years later (too many to reveal), we are still worried about the environment-- pollution, extinction, warming, melting... 

and it still continues to alter our earth.

22x17, pencil, collage, and emboss. 

70s

Food is libation, pastel, Johanna Bohoy

From my exhibit:
"A la Carte Art: food paintings by Johanna Bohoy

FOOD IS LIBATION
A sip– forget your fears.
A drink for the moment. 
R&R Time.
One shot of pleasure.
Two parts sublime. 

Pastel 7x5, 2009 in rustic green frame $95.

Food is sharing. Picking raspberries by Bohoy.

From my exhibit "A la Carte Art: Food Paintings" by Johanna Bohoy

FOOD is sharing: 
A gift from the Earth.
Ruby red pockets of juice.
Pick one.
Eat two.
One for me-
None for you.
All's fair with kids.

 2008, pastel, 8x10 in 14x15 Ralph Lauren frame, $350.

A la Carte Art Exhibit, Johanna Bohoy

I am exhibiting my food paintings, the month of April In Manchester-by-the Sea, Ma. 

“We are what we eat,” wrote Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in 1826. 
"Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es." 
Our lives, family, friends, events, libations, and love are all intertwined with food. 
~
My connection to food is enhanced by my work. 
I am a Dame in Les Dames d’Escoffier International, am active in the Masschusetts Specialty Food Association, am a designer of food packaging, and my husband Larry is my comsummate ‘chef.’

Tara rosa cat, pastel Bohoy

We had to say goodbye to our sweet cat Tara this week. She personified the word sweet. 

A gentle, delicate, feminine cat that our vet said was like a "little ballerina.” 

Never a scratch, a hiss or a bite came from her in 19 years.

She always brought us roses. Dropped them at our feet.

Where she found them- who knows?

But she always knew when 

one was needed.

♥