Johan S. Ellefsen Exhibition

Brush Strokes of Water and Clouds

at the Wellesley Free Library in the James E. Mahoney Foyer

January 3-31, 2025

Johan’s art exhibit opened at the Wellesley Free Library on Friday, January 3rd, 2025 and runs through January 31. The exhibit displays sixteen oil paintings offering a selection of the artist’s journey and his long-standing interest in the impressionist style. 

Johan S. Ellefsen is a self-taught artist, a writer and, by day, an attorney. He left behind his native country of Bolivia to live in Wellesley, MA. He is an Exhibiting Member of the Wellesley Society of Artists since 2023. His first exhibition was in 2006 in the library of the Lycée International de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, where he showed a series of drawings from sculptures from the Louvre Museum. In 2021, he exhibited his oil paintings in the Nemacolin Resort in Pennsylvania. More recently, in December 2024, he obtained the Yale Nicolls Award for Best Interpretation of the Natural World with his painting “Canadaway Creek.” He is inspired by the temperamental nature of water and the physical texture of oil paints. His current work focuses on landscapes in an impressionist style.