Her hobby took off when she and her husband retired and moved to Preeceville in 1995. To gain a little more experience she would drive to Yorkton to attend painting classes with her sister Laurie Krawetz. The first classes involved using water colour medium and Johnson admitted that she never really had a clue how to paint or what she was really doing. Her first water colour painting she created under the direction of Phyllis Herman was a landscape picture that she painted in the late 1990 s. Soon after, a Preeceville Art Group was founded with 13 members at the time of creation. They would meet weekly at the school, share ideas and encourage one another. There are only five of us left in the group now after a lot moved away and we just don t have a space for a location for us anymore, said Johnson. Art is a learned passion. Every painting or creation is different.”