John is now based in North East Scotland, in Aberdeenshire, after 27 years in the South West in Dumfries and Galloway. His focus remains birds and mammals in the landscape, in their habitat, celebrating the wonderful, life enhancing diversity of creatures that we share this planet with.

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He was made a member of the SWLA in 2007, the same year that he won the Swarovski/Birdwatch Bird Artist of the Year Award and the first of his two books with Langford Press, ‘Between the Tides’, was published. John has subsequently appeared in many other publications and his second book ‘Drawn to the Edge’ was released in 2013. He has also been awarded further prizes at the SWLA and Pastel Society exhibitions.

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First hand observations and field drawings in watercolour or pastel are the basis for all his work, though he prefers painting in pastel, acrylic or oils in the studio where he is looking to create something fresh and new that wholly embraces the initial experience but then takes that elsewhere, strengthening the initial intention and exciting the artist within.

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He has worked to commission for all the major wildlife charities, participated in the Artists for Nature Foundation project to Sark, the SWLA/BTO Flightlines project and the SWLA Argyll Hope Spot residency.

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