“Find the current follow the flow and the river’s voices say and sing what I cannot comprehend, and each time I lean my mind out to listen they retreat in the measure I approach them, so instead I start to scrawl the pages you are reading here and the paper glistens with river-mist until I’m just jotting words in ink that’s blotting in curls as phrases whirl into the notebook from a source vastly greater than the sphere of my skull and I find tears in my eyes that I did not put there but the river did - it may involve a great reach outward of mind and imagination, for those few seconds beckoned on and shivered by that hourglass shaped and silvered force that is a mouth and has a tongue and utters after miles and minutes and years on the flow and in it, I am rivered.” - Robert Macfarlane
This painting is inspired by the book Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane and maps of the development stages of the Mississippi River completed by Harold Fisk in 1944
John is an award winning abstract artist based in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, where he lives with his wife and two children. He was nominated as a Top Abstract Artist by the American Art Awards and his work was showcased on concert poster for the Grammy winning band ‘The Strokes’.
Through his paintings, he strives to merge abstraction with the tangible, delicate, and vibrant life found in the natural world. His work draws on fractal patterns and color theory as seen in the natural world. This is to draw his viewer's attention to the immense transformations that are constantly occurring all around them.
For more information please see the below interviews or the about above.
