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Charlotte Offlow Johnson Wahl (née Fawcett) is a British artist. She is the mother of Boris Johnson, British Foreign Secretary and former Mayor of London.
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- Figurative art today charlotte johnson wahl ward round a consultant and his firm
- Boris Johnson family wife
- Early life and education
- Paintings
- Personal life
- References
Boris Johnson family - wife
Early life and education
The daughter of James Fawcett, and his wife Frances Beatrice Lowe, she has a brother and three sisters. Her maternal grandparents, who were American, were palaeographer Elias Avery Lowe and translator Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter. Elias was a Russian Jewish immigrant to the U.S, while Helen was from Pennsylvania. Her great-great-aunt was poet Charlotte Porter.
She read English at Oxford University, and was the first married female undergraduate at Lady Margaret Hall. She interrupted her studies to go to the US with her husband Stanley Johnson whom she met at Oxford and married in Marylebone, London in 1963. She later returned to LMH with a baby and pregnant with her second child to sit Finals in 1965. She was awarded a second class honours degree.
Paintings
Johnson Wahl is recorded as having "made her name as a professional portrait painter" for the likes of Crispin Tickell, Joanna Lumley, Jilly Cooper, and Simon Jenkins, but is "also known for her vibrant and edgy urban landscapes", which have been described as echoing the Vorticist style.
She continues to paint. Her paintings sell at prices from £1,000 to £5,000 for a large one. Two of Wahl's paintings are in the collection of the Bethlem Museum of the Mind; another two are in the collections of Oxford University colleges.
Personal life
Johnson Wahl is the mother of politicians Boris Johnson and Jo Johnson, journalist Rachel Johnson and son Leo Johnson. She and Stanley later divorced. She married American professor Nicholas Wahl in 1988, but she was widowed in 1996.
She suffers from Parkinson's disease, which was first diagnosed in 1989.