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About my artwork: I paint large figurative pieces with an emphasis on the flesh. I employ a thick impasto technique with very abstract, random looking brushstrokes to create a fluid, active, look.

Artists I like: Eric Fischl, Lucian Freud, John Currin, Jenny Saville, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, Alice Neel, Philip Akkerman, etc.

At 7:25pm on 7th August 2008, Barbara Walker said…: Love the work in your gallery.

At 3:51pm on 29th June 2008, Hideyuki Sobue said…: I like your strong figurative touch. Although my style is not focusing human figure, I try to depict "life" in various subjects with representative expression. Please have a look at my page. Thank you.

At 1:49pm on 9th June 2008, Beppe said…: Hi,
I'm from ITALY. I invite you to visit my site. www. beppedevoti.com.
I want to invite you to join me in the pure painting art. Tank Beppe

At 9:47pm on 2nd June 2008, UmlautAmpersand said…: Hi there,

Thought you might be interested in my review of the current John Currin exhibition on my blog – would be really keen to hear your thoughts:

http://umlautampersand.wordpress.com/

Umlaut.

At 8:40pm on 31st May 2008, Patrick Higgins said…: John

Thank you for your compliment, I use photos as a launching point for the paintings but do a fair amount of life drawing. I hope to have more opportunity for using live models in the near future. I really appreciate your focusing on the interaction of your figures and I can see your motivation for often the neutral ground (in terms of identifying location) with a further emphasis of your mark. When do you make the choice to incorporate the local setting like with "Comfort"? You've got a really lovely mark going on by the way.

Thanks
Pat

At 12:28am on 26th May 2008, Valentin Hennig said…: Hey John !

How are you doing ?
Hows your work doing ?

I just spent a lot of time in painting on my new canvas- it will be huge, but not as huge as your canvases ^^

Do you have a recipe if the painting doesnt work as you want it to be ?

Best regards,
Valentin

At 2:46am on 25th May 2008, Hillel Kagan said…: Thanks for your comment John. Naturally being a curious person I gave your work a quick survey and was very impressed with much I saw and of course I see our connection, so thanks for inaugurating our discourse and just to get things going a bit I have to tell you right off, not that it means much but just as a point of conversation, that I don't think Fischl (although he's been improving through the years) can draw and paint the figure worth a damn, the rest of your "liked" artists I can understand and I love you for understanding the significance of Alice Neel, one of the greatest figurative painters and seemingly constantly forgotten but one who understood the importance of the human gesture and was willing to gamble with approaching caricature to get it right and usually she was the winner.
Being not all that computer savvy and not having warmed to this site yet, I see I'll have to join the Figurative Art dialogue so we can continue our chat. Once again thanks for your impetus.