Experience Mel Johnson

Mel Johnson is an oil painter I first met while living in Bothell.

I used a framer in Lake Forest Park to frame pictures I liked. Knowing I was a reporter, he said that I ought to do a story about Johnson.

He had a couple of Johnson’s paintings hanging in his gallery.

They looked interesting so I called Mel and set up a time I could go over to his place and talk with him.

That’s when I came to say...