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John studied at The Northampton School of Art
and The Byam Shaw Kensington, following this
with extensive study in life drawing and human
anatomy. Although he has worked in a variety
of media, including watercolour, etching and
sculpture, he has always considered himself to
be an oil painter. John's primary interest is
painting people in situations, whether it be a
beautiful woman or old men in a bar, and
although John does take the occasional
commission (and once exhibited with the Royal
Society of Portrait Painters), he prefers to choose
his own models, locations and compositions
and weave his own narrative both real and
imagined around the characters in his pictures.
John opened his own gallery in Northampton
following his first London One Man Show in Cork
Street in 1983 . His gallery then ran successfully for
the following nine years. In 1995 John painted
a collection of works ( The White Collection) for
London Contemporary Art ,and were exhibited
at The Roy Miles Gallery and The Albermarle
Gallery, London and the New York , Los Angeles
and Tokyo Expo's by LCA. One of these "Heaven"
was subsequently published by Wyatt Russell.
In 1999 John completed a collection of work
called " 20th Century Romance" a sweet and
sour mixture as his marriage of seventeen years
also ended in this year. "Romance" was
exhibited both in Northampton and London
and four paintings from this collection were
published as Limited edition Prints by Pole
Position.
In 2000 John was again commissioned by
London Contemporary Art to paint a collection
of work subsequently called "NightHawks" which
has been exhibited all over the world by West
End Galleries Florida and by LCA in both New
York and Los Angeles.
John is now working with the Bentley Publishing
Group in California USA. Open prints of "Enter the
Labyrinth" and "All that Glistens" are in worldwide
distribution through Leslie Levy Publishing since
May 2004 and are also available signed from
LHG, though stocks are limited.
John exhibits with galleries throughout the UK.
John lives with his son Bill a talented pianist/
composer and basketball player at "Linden
House" Abington, Northampton .
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