Adam Postgardenus Maximus Print

John Wilkes was born in Atlanta, Georgia in the southeastern United States in 1973. His parents were both Mathematicians one a teacher and the other a computer programmer. Previous generations were mostly south Georgia farmers and teachers with strong ties to the land, the seasons and nature. Beyond that his ancestors descended from England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany and France. John studied biology and landscape architecture were he learned drawing, drafting, graphics and rendering as well as design, construction and presentation. John's early jobs included Naturalist for the Georgia State Dept. Of Natural Resources, several boutique landscape design and build companies and Executive Director of the Downtown Development Authority for the Historic District of downtown Milledgeville, Georgia. John has practiced landscape design and construction for over 20 years building hundreds of residential landscapes in around Atlanta, Georgia and Denver, Colorado. John is married and the father of two boys, 4 and 1 years old. Painting is allowing him to spend more time at home providing for and caring for his family. Thank you to all patrons for your support. His intention with painting is to expand on ideas about the human condition and how values and attitudes shape the quality of life in the modern landscape. The choice to work with portraits is a deliberate attempt to approach human emotions, reactions and states of being and through freedom and obstruction of expression.