Nundah Now Art Show, contemporary section 2025 First Prize prize
Open section at the 2025 Sandgate Easter exhibition Runner up prize**
Keyton 2024 Resident’s Calendar Competition winner*
Nundah Now Art Prize for Still Life 24 Runner up prize**
Lendlease Calendar 2023 Art trail winner*
Nundah Now Art Prize 2023 Runner up prize
JOHN SPITTLE PAINTINGS
I am a visual artist who paints in water colour, acrylic, oil and pen and ink, portraying land and seascapes, portraits and still life.
I paint in an impressionist/realism style but also abstract on occasions. My paintings are about the people and places around me, locally and internationally. I portray how I feel about the environment, and the world generally – positively.
I hope by viewing my work that my audience will gain some insight into my feelings about the world in general….my enthusiasm for life and my works.
Signed originals and Limited Edition prints on fine art papers, cotton or canvas with semi-permanent inks the images will last up to 100 years hung away from bright light
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* Winning artwork can be found in the Lendlease Resident Art trail Coffee table book
**The Runner up artwork can be found in the “Other Paintings Gallery”
Painting of the month - Ode to an American Icon
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 900mm X 600mm
Price: $1890
In stock
My Influences
My mother was arty & had a good eye & over the years did some barbola work with clay, china painting etc., as did I when I was a school boy. the old masters, Renoir, Rembrandt, Matisse, Goya, Gainsborough, John Constable. More contemporary artists e.g. Andrew Wyeth, NC Wyeth, Carolyn Wyeth, Henriette Wyeth Hurd & James Wyeth. In New Zealand Graham Sydney Manitoto & Dunedin, Tony Lewis, Val Venimore my art tutor at Future Col in Napier. Shona MacFarlane Dunedin Dick Frizzel, the Late Peter Siddell, Auckland, Gaston de Vel, Wellington, David Woodings, Christchurch, E John Robinson, Alan Magee, AH Reed (watercolourist,) all USA, nearly all of those artis I have tutored overthe years have taught me something that I didn’t know or had forgotten.
Visiting famous Art Galleries such as Salvadore Dali’s studio in Spain & his museum there and in Florida, the Louvre, the Musee d’Orsay & the Guggenheim, in LA, also some small private galleries in France & USA. The Hiroshima Art Gallery which has traditional Japanese & Chinese Art but also 2 m magnificent galleries housing some of the worlds best paintings by all the old master, the Tokyo Art Gallery and numerous small galleries in Tokyo.