Signed Limited Edition Prints

Artist Signed Limited Edition Prints

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

Series One 2016    

Edition of 50 + 5 artist's proofs, each signed by the artist

Paper size 59.5 cm X 42 cm  

Series Two 2016    

Edition of 50 + 5 artist's proofs, each signed by the artist

Paper size 110 cm X 84 cm

If you have any questions regarding these editions please email info@levergallery.com

Original painting

c. 1965, acrylic on board

Like ‘White Leotard with Red Spot’, Johnson painted this to pitch to art directors at fashion magazines. They were some of the first images Johnson created with acrylic paint, which first became available in the 1960s. Before this, illustrators would use casein paint which dried very slowly. With acrylic, illustrators have to work quickly whilst it’s wet because it is waterproof when dry.

Lever Gallery Signed Limited Edition Prints

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

LG 1 2016    

Edition of 50 + 5 artist's proofs, each signed by the artist

Paper size 59.5 cm X 42 cm  

Original work: c.1965, acrylic on board

Commissioned to illustrate a story in Women's Mirror magazine - Johnson uses monochrome shades to capture the scene. 

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

Lever Gallery Limited Edition Prints

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

Edition of Only 20 Prints, signed by Walter Wyles (1925-2017).

Paper size 42 cm X 29.7 cm  

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

Original artwork; c.1969, watercolour on whatman paper

This is for a six-part serialization of Paul Gallico’s novel Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris for a popular women’s magazine.  Before the advent of full colour television in 1969 women’s magazines were enormously popular in the UK.   A magazine like Woman, would sell three and a half million copies a week.  Their influential art directors competed to hire the freshest illustration talent of the time to illustrate all manner of content including exceptional short stories and serialisations.

Lever Gallery Signed Limited Edition Prints

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.  

One of only 20 prints - each signed by the artist Gino D'Achille

Paper size 59.5 cm X 42 cm  

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

Original artwork; c.1965, acrylic on board

Painted for Nova magazine. D’Achille captures the utopian ideals behind the building of new, modernist public housing in the sixties. The architecture is elegant, from its ordered façade to the splash of blue amongst plain and simple materials. Offset with a lush tree and even playful chalk drawings on the pavement. The piece is designed to be viewed with its partner, Life on a Council Estate 2.

Artist Signed Limited Edition Prints

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

Series One 2016    

Edition of 50 + 5 artist's proofs, each signed by the artist

Paper size 59.5 cm X 42 cm  

Series Two 2016    

Edition of 50 + 5 artist's proofs, each signed by the artist

Paper size 110 cm X 67 cm

If you have any questions regarding these editions please email info@levergallery.com

Original painiting - acrylic on board, c. 1965

Johnson painted this and ‘White and Black Dress’ to pitch to art directors at fashion magazines. He presented the piece to Willie Landels, influential art director of Harpers & Queen, who created magazine’s distinctive aesthetic. Landels judged this piece ‘too like a work of art’ for fashion illustration, however, he commissioned other work from Johnson. The two became lifelong friends. The original board size is approximately 52 cm tall by 45 cm wide.

Signed Limited Edition Prints

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

Edition of 20 Prints, signed by Walter Wyles (1925-2017).

Paper size 42 cm X 29.7 cm  

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

Original artwork; watercolour on whatman paper, c.1969

This illustration was commissioned for a serialised story in a woman’s magazine. Unlike his contemporaries, Wyles worked in watercolour, working from the magazine’s art direction and reference photography.  He achieved astonishing accuracy, the only clue to his medium being the way details beyond the focus points appear to melt away. The original painting art board is approximately 30 cm wide x 41 cm tall. 

Lever Gallery Signed Limited Edition Prints

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

LG 1 2016    

Edition of 20 + 5 artist's proofs, each signed by the artist

Paper size 59.5 cm X 42 cm  

Print of original work (c.1965, acrylic on board)

Commissioned to illustrate a crime story in the German magazine, Bunte, Johnson hasn’t encapsulated the narrative with a single scene, as he would usually.  Instead, he has lifted a number of motifs from the story and assembled them like pieces of evidence. Johnson himself appears in the illustration as the photographer.

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

1965, acrylic on board

This piece was commissioned by Hodder & Stoughton for a series of novels by Leslie Charteris, following the adventures of Simon Templar aka The Saint. Johnson regularly worked with the model used for this illustration, and would design the styling with her. The pose, and the scene, is heavily influenced by the casino photography of Richard Avedon.

Lever Gallery Limited Edition Prints

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

LG 2016  

Edition of 50 + 5 artist's proofs

Paper size 42 cm X 29.7 cm  

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

Lever Gallery Limited Edition Prints

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

One of only 20 prints - each signed by the artist Gino D'Achille

Paper size 59.5 cm X 42 cm  

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

Original artwork; c.1965, acrylic on board

D’Achille represents the legendary Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni in this piece, setting him in London. The green tint to the background figures, and Mastroianni's brooding features, suggest jealousy or concealed anger in contrast to the innocence of the brightly clothed girl in the foreground.

The original painting art board is approximately 76 cm wide x 54 cm tall.

Signed Limited Edition Print

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

LG 2016  

Edition of 20 Prints, signed by Walter Wyles (1925-2017). 

Paper size 42 cm X 29.7 cm  

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

Original artwork; watercolour on Whatman paper c.1969, 

The precision and expertise that is emblematic of his work comes from early training as a draughtsman and book binder.  As is evident in this piece, Wyles’ work is characterised by an attention to detail. His favoured medium of watercolour provided his work with a refined quality; the brushstrokes are more evident and contain more shading than in the more graphic. The original painting is approximately 30 cm wide x 41 cm tall. 

Lever Gallery Signed Limited Edition Prints

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

One of only 20 prints - each signed by the artist Gino D'Achille

Paper size 59.5 cm X 42 cm  

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

 Original artwork; c.1965, acrylic on board

Painted for Nova magazine in conjunction with Life on a Council Estate 1, D’Achille gets behind the stylish modernity of the building’s façade to illustrate the council residents’ imagined lives in such a construction. 

Lever Gallery Signed Limited Edition Prints

Professionally scanned at high resolution and individually colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée printed onto 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

2016 LG 01 Edition of just 20 + 5 artist proofs
Paper size: 59.5 cm X 42 cm  Approx. image size: 49.5 cm X 35 cm

An early commission for short-lived London agency Dyad Marketing. Johnson interpreted the brief ‘Girl with a Gun’ using photographs in a sequence of poses arranged like a moving image. Influenced by American illustrators who were showing their work in art galleries, Johnson created this at a scale suitable for a gallery setting.

If you have any questions regarding these editions please email info@levergallery.com

Artist Signed Limited Edition Prints

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

Edition of 50 + 5 artist's proofs, each signed by the artist

Paper size 59.5 cm X 42 cm  

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

Original painting c.1969, acrylic on board & mixed media 3D in board

Johnson created this for the influential Penguin art director David Pelham. Commissioned for a set of Monica Dickens’ paperback novels, possibly her nursing memoir One Pair of Feet, Pelham asked Johnson to produce one of his 3D paintings. Johnson used stiff card and glue to work the illustration outwards, into the viewer's space. This was his first 3D work for a book cover. The original painting is approximately 45 cm wide x 70 cm tall.

Signed Limited Edition Prints

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks. 

Edition of 50 + 5 artist's proofs, each signed by the artist

Paper size 59.5 cm X 42 cm  

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

Original painting, acrylic on board, c.1966,  

Whilst working for American magazines, Johnson created this to pitch to potential clients in New York.  In order to demonstrate his artistry and range, he has repeated male and female figures.  What began as something functional became part of Johnson’s developing style; in particular, his use of collage.

Signed Limited Edition Prints

Professional high-resolution scan, colour adjusted to closely represent original artwork. Giclée print on 100% Cotton Rag ‘Hahnemühle’ 308gsm Fine Art Paper, using archival pigmented inks.

Edition of 50 + 5 artist's proofs, each signed by the artist

Paper size 59.5 cm X 42 cm  

If you have any questions regarding this edition please email info@levergallery.com

Original Painting c.1969, acrylic on board    

Johnson occasionally drove Lotus cars competitively was a huge admirer of John Surtees. In this painting, Surtees can be seen sitting in the cockpit of Jim Hall’s 1969 Chaparral 2H whilst Hall stands alongside beside one of his mechanics. Surtees raced this innovative car during the 1969 Can-Am season.  

Surtees was a four-time 500cc motorcycle World Champion (1956, 1958, 1959 & 1960) and Formula One World Champion in 1964. He remains the only person to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels.