INSPIRATION
PAINTING HOLIDAYS IN MENORCA
with
artist John Glover
About John Glover - page 1
John Glover
John is a highly accomplished and experienced artist and teacher.
His subjects have included people from all walks of life, from grand official
portraits of academic Masters or Chairmen of Councils, to smaller, more
intimate family groups or individual studies. His work ranges from portraits
in which he has captured the character and dignity of age, to others where
it is the innocence of childhood that is portrayed. He works in all mediums
from pencil to watercolour, pastel to oils.
Born in Scotland in 1945, John studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1963 - 1967 and at Jordanhill College of Further Education from 1967 - 1968. In 1992 he completed a BA Arts Degree with the Open University.
Between 1970 and 1980, John worked as a freelance book illustrator in London for such publishers as Evans Brothers, Hamlyns, Oxford University Press and Macmillans. From 1980 he has concentrated on his love of portraiture.
Landscape
Painting
John is also an estimable landscape painter and has exhibited widely.
"I love working out of doors and battling with the elements,"
says John. His paintings capture windswept Scottish beaches, vast East
Anglian skies, the glowing colours of France, the magic of Venice and,
of course the vibrant colours of Menorca.
John's
45 minute painting in gouache
of an old bread oven in Menorca
See
60sec (3mb) video of John at work
John's
portrait of Amy.
This was painted in just over one hour
as a demonstration of portrait technique
for
the artists in the studio in Menorca.
More pictures of this demo in the Gallery
