John Douglas
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| Eastern Promise, by artist John Douglas |
Artist John Douglas was born in Kansas but raised in Arizona.
Douglas’s first creative influences stemmed from the delicacy and
seemingly perfect scope of nature that he found in his own
interactions with the diversity in the landscape of the American
Southwest. John pursued an education in fine art by attending
university in Arizona, as well as coursework in California where he
intensively studied drawing, painting and various additional forms
of art media.
The artist’s passion for travel has taken him
around the globe and back. Personal favourite retreats include
Thailand, Florence, Vienna, Prague and the Amalfi Coast – all of
which have provided him with tremendous inspiration that overflows
in his work. Douglas has confirmed that he is willing to go,
literally, to the ends of the earth to seek out the objects and
ethos of exotic places to translate into his work. He has made
countless trips to the Met in New York and the Tate in London, for
which he has incredible admiration and which he forever finds
amazingly poignant. Douglas also acknowledges the momentum in his
own work as stimulus from the intensity and curious profundity of
such modern artists as Francis Bacon and Salvador Dali. He looks to
Bacon for his brilliance, bold success, belief and enormity, and to
Dali for his imaginative genius, eccentric character and surrealist
psyche.
Douglas’s work transcends mere classical representation.
The complex layering of paint, images, iconography and other media
work together to build a fantastic bridge to a world that balances
both antiquity and modernism. The sophistication in the artist’s
diversity of styles has been inspired from all over the world – from
Greek and Roman columns to the geometry of mosaics and tile work –
from the palms of the British West Indies to the royalty of the
Renaissance. Douglas continues to reinvent himself with exploring
new mediums such as vibrant, abstract painting on dimensional steel
and copper wall sculptures, painted dimensional wood construction
wall reliefs, and painted glass. (artist's biography copyright Felix
Rosenstiel's, 2010)
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