Frankie Johnson is an accomplished artist with over 30 years of experience in oil painting and pastels.  She has studied art and design at the Art Institute of Chicago, and through her long association with the Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Art in Chicago, she has studied with distinguished artists such as Ted Goerschner, Ted Smuskiewicz, Clyde Aspevig,  Scott Burdick and Richard Schmid.   Frankie's paintings hang in numerous corporate and private collections throughout the country.

Frankie was a finalist in the 1998 and 1999 Artist's Magazine competition for her portrait, landscape and still life entries.  Her painting, "Reading in the Courtyard", was featured in the December/January 2001 issue of International Artist magazine.  At the December 2003 Oil Painters of America Show , she won an award for her still life painting "Tea Party".

She is currently represented by the Champeau Pioneer Gallery in Sister Bay, Wisconsin.