Johanna Spinks

Johanna Spinks is a British-born, Los Angeles–based oil portrait artist.

[4] Spinks moved from the UK to New York aged 22, and worked as a makeup artist before becoming a professional painter.

[8] This was followed by a solo show in 2014 at the Museum of Ventura County including an invitational artist's talk on the project.

The 58 painted portraits of Ventura residents was donated to the museum's permanent collection.

[10] Spinks' portrait work appeared in the California Art Club's annual events: the 102nd Gold Medal Exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art; the 104th Gold Medal Exhibition at the USC Fisher Museum of Art; the 106th Gold Medal Exhibition at the Autry Museum of the American West,[11] and at the 107th Gold Medal Exhibition at The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles [12] Spinks' mentor is seven-time presidential painter Everett Raymond Kinstler, N.A.,[5] who she trained under at The Art Students League of New York and The National Academy of Design, New York.