About
John's art education started in the 1960s, when from the age of 11 he attended Moseley School of Art, a specialist grammar school combining academic and creative studies. He went on to the linked Bourneville College of Art. His working life started in design at ATV television studios. In the early seventies he moved to London, where over a long career he built a successful communications business.
Outside business he continued to paint and became involved in sculpture. He played a role in the transformation of the Royal Society of Sculptors into an international force in contemporary sculpture, acting as an advisor to the Society and serving as one of its first independent board members. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Society.
A few years ago he moved to a hilltop home, studio, and sculpture workshop in the Scottish Highlands to concentrate on art and writing, inspired by the landscape, by the River Tay and the spirit of the Highland community. He now paints from his studio on the Cowal Peninsular, on the West Coast of Scotland, where the maritime life of the Firth of Clyde and the Atlantic coast have given him new subjects.
