Paintings
John’s paintings are a response to the cultural and spiritual ideas or stereotypes of beauty. The impasto surfaces of the paintings are visceral, composed of oil, beeswax, and oil bars. The physicality of the paintings is intended to be a foil to the ethereal content of the work. The paint is pushed on, scraped off, painted , repainted and over painted taking the work through a sense of discovery and allowing the image if any to evolve out of the process. If there is an image it is more likely satire or parody within the idea strengthening our disturbance of our stereotypes we’ve come to accept. All the while the paintings evoke a unique sense of beauty outside of the viewers and artist’s preconceptions.