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 […]

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 […]

In many ways John was a very private person who could also be the life and soul of the party, a family man who enjoyed solitude and felt that he had not the time for the constraints of group activity, i.e:- “It is difficult enough trying to attain ones own objectives without having to consider […]