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John was born near
Manchester in 1949. After leaving school he attended Stockport College
of Art to study advertising and graphic design. Having completed the
final year of his degree at Salford College of Art, John was awarded the
prestigious Bursary Award from the highly acclaimed Royal Society of
Arts.
After graduating in 1973 John embarked upon a career in advertising.
Working as an art director he designed and illustrated books for the
European market. It was during this time that he became increasingly
inspired by Spanish and French post-impressionist painters. His love of
fine art grew as he visited local and national art exhibitions and he
discovered a great affection for the Fauvist masters, Matisse and
Braque.
John has had numerous group and one-man exhibitions both in the UK and
abroad. He has gained an enviable reputation for his dazzling Provencal
landscapes, café scenes, hill towns and harbour reflections. He
deliberately exaggerates the strong sunlight and deep shadows in his
studies to evoke the warmth of the Mediterranean. Bright oranges,
yellows and luminous greens vie with bluish mauves and maroon tinged
purples in his pastel works with an even stronger glow from Johns oil
paintings.
While Johns impressionistic style and use of colour has great exuberance
the subject matter is nothing if not laid back! His work has been
welcomed into the market with great enthusiasm. The phenomenal demand
for his original pastels and oils has resulted in an extensive
publishing programme of his superb limited edition prints and dazzling
original silk-screens. He has also been recognised by the industry; he
was nominated as Best Up-and-Coming Artist in both 1999 and 2000 by the
Fine Art Trade Guild.
I have worked at giving my paintings a very special warmth of their own.
As well as being evocations of particular places, my work is related to
abstract ideas, executed in slabs of rich colour and texture.
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