In collaboration with Rise Art, Mayacama hosted the painter Ezra Johnson as an artist in residence.

From the sunlight breaking on the tops of hills and trees, viewed from his casita early in the morning, to mist settling over the putting greens at dusk, Johnson has applied his painterly language to many aspects of life at the club.

The resultant paintings – like much of Johnson’s past work – sit somewhere between fact and fiction. They analyse the landscape as an example of nature shaped by man, taking stock of both its untameable wildness and its regimented patterns. Beyond that, though, they depart from the reality of the artist’s surroundings, by turns simplifying and embellishing them. In doing so, they expose glimmers of his own emotional reaction to the landscape.

It is through this balance of perception and imagination that Johnson has rendered his unique vision of Mayacama, playing on the personal emotional resonances of the landscape and, where necessary, using his artistic licence to convey them to us.

Rise Art shines a light on today's most dynamic and culturally significant artists, collaborating directly with a curated roster of emerging, mid-career, and established creatives worldwide.

Mayacama is a private golf and residential community nestled in the hills of northern Sonoma County, California.