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Falls Of Dochart
Harvest in Strathardle
Luss Village
White Poppies |
John's interest in art was established in early childhood but
became a full time artist in 1992. He is self taught but
constantly experiments, and studies the work of other
contemporary artists. His subjects have covered town to country,
floral to figurative, snow scenes, summer landscapes, boats,
Scottish castles and pets.
Looking
for ideas in style and design John loved the Glasgow Boys work,
then he developed a love of colour influenced by Robert Hagen in
Australia, Ted Goerschner in USA and Mike Svob from Canada, all
modern contemporary artists. The English colourist Ken Howard
has a masterly way with light as well as colour, and he
introduced the artist model into the figurative paintings. At
this time John had been going to evening classes for figure
painting in Edinburgh College of Art and he was beginning to
produce reasonable figurative images. Inspiration then flowed
from the art of Jack Vettriano and the late Robert Lenkiewicz,
both masters of figurative painting.
John now tends to paint a reduced range of
topics of figure studies, large flowers and snow scenes,
although commission work again extends the range as does work
for limited edition prints, and luxury Christmas cards.
He is a member of the Fine Art Trade Guild
and represented on the National Artist Register at Axis in Leeds
University.
John
exhibits widely in Scotland as well as London and now with his
own website sales and commissions come from all over the world.
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Loch Fyne
Harvest in Forthvalley
South Alloa Island
Cottage Garden in Rait |
