Having apprenticed with Glenn Lewis and Mick Henry during her graduate studies at UBC, her work is directly tied to their philosophies and linked to Bernard Leach and Japanese Pottery.
[1] In addition to Britain, she travelled to Turkey, France, Morocco, and Malaysia for artistic research[7] then returned to Canada and began making a series of stoneware gargoyles.
Her mastery of subtle glazes and clean, graceful forms ensures her place in the Canadian canon of ceramic art, but the true value of her legacy exceeds the material residue of her creative practice.
[3] In 2003, Johnson continued to show her pottery in the group exhibition "Genius Loci" at The Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo, ON.
[1] "Thrown" showed Johnson's bowls, vases, jars, cups, boxes, plates, saucers, tea pots, and oven dishes in varied colours, shapes and sizes.
"Nature", held at Catriona Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver, BC, exhibited her ink on paper drawings of botanicals.
[4] In 2004, Johnson contributed to the research of the exhibition, "Thrown" held at the Morris and Helen and Belkin Art Gallery and co-curated it with Lee Plested and Scott Watson.