Gregory Alan Johnson was born in 1954 and grew up in Brook Park, Ohio. He grew up with a passion for drawing, encouraged by his artist father, who provided him with reams of paper, and a newly created tool called “Magic Markers,” He was accepted into Cooper School of Art in Cleveland in 1974, majoring in Illustration. He was a freelance illustrator and cartoonist for many years, which would influence his later independent work.

Upon retiring from his day job, he decided to become a full-time creative artist, with the deep desire to harken back to his childhood days, when he just doodled into the night. This is exactly what he did, resulting in almost 400 works in over four years’ time, five solo shows, pieces in the Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Expo, the Zanesville Museum of Art, and several exhibitions in Cleveland, Columbus, and Canton.