John was born in Worcestershire in 1927, moving to Lancashire in 1930. He studied Engineering at London University. After returning from National Service in R.E.M.E. in Malaya in 1947 he married Dilys, his childhood sweetheart, and has followed a varied Professional Electrical Engineering career during which he worked for Metropolitan Vickers, A.E.I., G.E.C., Grimwood of Australia, and Emerson Electric of the U.S.A.. In 1977 John & Dilys set up their own small Electrical Design & Manufacturing Company, which they ran until retirement in 1997.

Over the years Dilys & John have had four children & lived in Surrey, Oxfordshire, Lancashire and have now retired to Scarborough. John is a self taught leisure painter using acrylic paint from its early beginnings in 1965 until retirement in 1997. The greater challenge( and satisfaction) of the watercolour medium took over after retirement culminating in the present landscape, village and seascape works.

John has always found that selling his work (particularly to overseas buyers) gives rise to both sadness at the loss of the painting and exhilaration at the successful sale. He is now very enthusiastic about the Giclee colour-fast reproduction possibilities, which provide limited edition high quality prints at affordable prices and at the same time replace the fading photographic portfolio records of earlier work.

Prints available from K2 Giclee Art on 0845 2300 143
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