2025 Padstow Gallery, Cornwall - Easter Exhibition
2024 Ekströms Galleri, Västerås, Sweden - ‘Balancing Act’ with Catharina Bauer
2024 Sollentuna Konstronda - Open Studio Weekend 28th-29th September
2024 Prince & Pilgrim Gallery, Richmond, Surrey - Summer Exhibition
2024 Roddarhuset, Vaxholm, Sweden - Summer Exhibition
2024 Galleri Fiskhuset, Nyköping, Sweden - ‘Fem på Fiskhuset’ 2024 Galerie Ca Bon, Tokyo, Japan 2023 Sollentuna Konstronda - Open Studio Weekend 2022 Padstow Gallery, Cornwall - One-man show, ‘Coast to Coast’ 2022 Magpie Contemporary Art, Farnham, Surrey 2020 Karby Gård, Täby, Sweden
2020 'Coastal Paths'. Whitespace Art, Totnes
2020 Galleri Fiskhuset, Nyköping, Sweden
2019 One-man show at Roddarhuset, Vaxholm
2019 Lime Tree Gallery, Long Melford, Suffolk, England
2018 Affordable Art Fair, Singapore (with Lime Tree Gallery)
2018 Affordable Art Fair, Stockholm, October (with Roddarhuset)
2018 Sollentuna Konstronda (2004-2019) Open studio
2017 Affordable Art Fair, Stockholm 12-15th October (with Roddarhuset)
2017 Affordable Art Fair, Bristol 8-10th September(with Lime Tree Gallery)
2017 Roddarhuset, Vaxholm - Group Show
2017 Lime Tree Gallery, Suffolk - 'Places I Know'
2017 Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol - 'A Sense of Space'
2016 Roddarhuset, Vaxholm - Group Show
2015 Ashdown Gallery, Forest Row, England
2015 Roddarhuset, Vaxholm
2014 Ashdown Gallery, Forest Row, England
2013 Stockholmskonstsalong, Hagaparken (Stipendium!)
2012 Galleri Ekvall+Törnblom, Stockholm
2012 Roddarhuset, Vaxholm
2011 Edsvik Konsthall, Höstsalong
2011 Galleri Aniara, Sollentuna Bibliotek
2011 Vaxholms skulpturpark, Roddarhuset
2011 Överby Gård Konstcentrum, Sollentuna
2009 Roddarhuset, Vaxholm
2008 Edsvik Konsthall, Höstsalong
2008 Stockholmskonstsalong, Hagaparken (Stipendium)
2008 Galleri Glöd, Malmö
2006 "30 x 30", Väsby Konsthall
2006 Galleri Lucy Ford, Stockholm
2006 "30 x 30", Väsby konsthall
2006 Överby Gård, Sollentuna
2005 Galleri Mäster Olof, Stockholm
2004 "30 x 30", Väsby konsthall
2004 Akvarellsalong, Väsby konsthall
2000 Brighton Festival
Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, John grew up on England’s east coast. He studied Architecture in Brighton and worked for many years with exhibition design, interiors and illustration. After moving to Sweden with his young family, John began painting and exhibiting more actively. More recently he’s expanded his gallery representation beyond Sweden to throughout the U.K, France and to the U.S.A. In the Spring of 2024 he travelled to Japan and had a sell-out show in Tokyo.
In his paintings, he explores landscape and seascape through its patterns and textures, attempting to trigger a memory or a sense of place and ignoring conventional rules of perspective along the way. In his still-life studies, John tries to tease something extraordinary out of his everyday surroundings. Inspiration for John lies all around, from an uncleared breakfast table to an upturned boat on a shingle beach.
John paints with acrylics which he lays on with vigour. After creating an initial abstract composition of shapes and splashes, some semblance of reality normally finds its way in; a mug, a vase, a boat, a jetty… More often than not, he works on hard panels such as plywood or mdf which enable him to scratch and distress the surface. In addition to paint, he uses whatever may be to hand; charcoal, crayons, correcting fluid, oil pastel, wallpaper paste, working layer upon layer until (eventually) something emerges and tells him to stop.
