About John
John is an award winning artist and educator, he continually stretches his artistic vocabulary with skillfully rendered paintings in an eclectic range of styles from realism to post-impressionism to abstraction. His work often reflects his love of nature and the play of light.
He holds a double art major - bachelor of Fine Arts in painting & ceramics as well as a bachelor of science degree in art education from Minnesota State University at Mankato. As an educator, John taught elementary through university level students, presented several art residencies and lectured in England.
His work has received local, state and regional awards and has been exhibited in the Embassies of Georgetown, Guyana and Bamako, Mali. He has shown in galleries across the US and is included in many corporate and private collections around the world.
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The Green Men
John has always loved recycling and repurposing things that many might not bother with. Discoveries and treasures are often found at tag sales and the local recycling center.
Sculpting Green Men is a process which starts there and finishes after cutting or assembling shapes composing them and finally- painting them.
In Celtic folklore, the Green Man is associated with rebirth, representing the cycle of growth every spring. With the time we have just experienced in isolation, it seems as if a little rebirth might be in order for us all right now!
