I hope everyone is keeping safe and well during the challenging year that 2020 has proven to be. The John Horwill website will be going through further developments during 2021. Whilst the website goes through developments, the shop has been disabled so visitors can’t purchase prints. I will be looking to have the shop up […]

I am happy to announce that the shop section of the Horwill A.R.C.A Art Reproduction website is officially open. Over the last year, I have been busy working with Graphic Designer Pete Borlace in creating the shop section of this website. There are now 158 pieces of John Horwill’s artwork available to purchase as prints. […]

A brief encounter with John’s paintings shows many apparently different images, from points of departure. These subjects, as diverse and partial (in some instances) as they are “become the same thing in a perceived visual sense if not in a psychological sense” images are perceived to merge rather than remain separate. Of ‘Figure Landscape’ painting […]

 At aged 67 I retired from work and took up photography, joining Llanrwst Camera Club in North Wales, in 2008-2009. I began developing my photography skills across a range of disciplines, from landscapes to studio work, along with understanding how to work with digital formats and preparing files for print. Using these skills I have […]

My paintings derive mainly from landscapes of my environment. This landscape may not be the ‘real’ subject of my painting. The purpose as I see it, is the identification of perception. My emotional response to the environment is important, but I endeavor to understand both why and what I am responding to. Drawing is an […]

Taken from Elizabeth’s speech at John Horwill’s Retrospective Exhibition JUNE 1999 He was always refining his own work, perhaps following the self-taught primitive painter, Alfred Wallis, whose sayings were pinned on the walls of his studio :-  “Don’t put paint where it don’t belong”  this summed up John’s attitude to his own work, he didn’t […]