In My Time Painting

These fiberglass pieces are extremely unique and before the painting is even started, a lot of time goes into the craft of making the frame and the fiberglass technique. The cross bars go in last, after the painting is completed because I want the cross bars to work in relation to the actual painting. After many years of building these fiberglass pieces, the process if finally getting more predictable but this is also the beauty of the fiberglass pieces, they all unique before the painting even starts. In the past 3 years, John's work is exploring the ways to communicate and draw emotion through painting - creating tension between tranquility and disruption / uncertainty and resolve / the familiar and the unfamiliar. These works are simultaneously personal by the use of various, connecting narratives and metaphors and at the same time leave an element of mystery and discovery. In this discovery of communication and emotion, exploring different materials plays a role in conveying my philosophies. The past couple years, he's been using fiberglass and resin - naturally these mediums create a great deal of inconsistencies and adds to the narrative. The resin can evoke tranquility and yet become disruptive - also creating the perfect and the imperfect, in the quest for balance and resolve. Coming from a graphic design background, he like's to use visual information from everyday life to add to the narrative - this could be in the form of words, reproductions of paintings, personal drawings, geometric/organic shapes and more.