Artist, photographer and writer, born in Derbyshire. Johnson’s work was often autobiographical, it went through various phases and he enjoyed a late creative period well into his eighties. As painter and collagist he was prolific, but he destroyed much of his output. Moved to Belfast in 1934 and studied with John Luke. With him he travelled to Paris, where pictures seen there influenced Johnson’s own. After Belfast Johnson lived in Dublin, where his work was to find favour. In 1952–3, working with Anne Yeats, the poet W B Yeats’s daughter, Johnson produced photographs of the city before it was changed by developers. They were published in 1980 as Dublin: The People’s City, winning an award at the Leipzig International Book Fair. Eventually Johnson returned to England.