Since 1970, artist Vicki L. Johnson has been creating quilted and painted artworks. Currently, her emphasis is on quilts that use the California coast as inspiration, and that integrate painted and pieced fabric surfaces.
Vicki L. Johnson is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a degree in graphic design. She worked in that field for ten years before devoting her time to quilts. She has been a freelance teacher lecturing and teaching for Guilds and national quilt conferences since 1981. The American Quilter's Society has published her book, Paint and Patches.
The quilted paintings of Vicki L. Johnson have been seen in international exhibitions and collections, private and corporate. Many of them have won awards in these exhibits. Vicki’s artworks are owned by the Oregon Coast Aquarium, the Museum of the American Quilter's Society, Valley Oak Dental Group, Fairfield Processing Corp., Mountain Bell, and by private collectors in America, Canada, England, Sweden and Switzerland.