John turner artist mobile college
John Turner - Barrister - Level 5, 43 High Street, Auckland ......
BIOGRAPHY
My name is John Turner
I work in a wide array of mediums including: acrylic, oil stick, enamels, chalkboard paint, 24k gold and silver leaf, hay, dirt, and variey of industrial materials.
You could say that I was destined to pursue a career, in the arts.
John turner artist mobile college
My father: Dr. Evan H. Turner, http://clevelandartsprize.org/awardees/evan_turner.html was the director, of a number of major city museums including: The Frick Collection, The Montreal Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art.
My great uncle Albert Bierstadt, was an American painter, with the Hudson River School:
http://www.albertbierstadt.org/biography.html
Although our styles are entirely different, I still believe that I continually draw from my past, and the environment that I have grown up in, and have been exposed to throughout my life.
The canvases that I produce, are heavily manipulated.
I adhere canvas and string onto the existing stretched canvas. Layers of paint,